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Larry[/quote]

I haven't tried a whole lot of different formats. Mostly I've read some of the books that came with the device (some were txt, some epub). I've also read about a dozen of eReader pdb books and some that I've made myself over the years with eReader Studio. Plus, I've read a few of the html books that I downloaded from Project Gutenberg. Haven't really noticed any one format out of those that I've liked better or liked least. I haven't had a lot of luck with PDF files - most of the ones I've tried really haven't been formated to fit the JBL's small screen.]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26538.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26538.page GMT
I guess I will have to wait and hope that when they add new fonts there will be ones I like. I was trying to convert to PDF because a PDF file will show up the way it is saved.]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26540.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26540.page GMT
Of course it doesn't hurt that I've purchased over 4600 books from Fictionwise. The biggest problem with this format on the JBL is that currently Ectaco have only implemented a limited set of features. According to them though "eReader PDB dictionaries and reference titles are not yet compatible with the jetBook lite's dictionary search, cross-referencing and T9 capabilities. We expect a firmware update for this in the very near future. Please check back soon."

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If none of the formats allow embedded fonts at present what are the chance of adding this feature in the future? I do not care how much space a book takes on my memory card. It is going to take a long time to fill the memory card anyway and I am using the smallest I have.

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If You prefer reading free classic, You may use TXT format.



Best Regards,

Pavel - technical support

Ectaco INC,
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You indicate the best format to save in is PDB format. When I do this and copy over to my jetbook it does not recognize the book. Only after I converted the book to epub did the jetbook recognize the book. I tried 5 different time to copy the book in PDB to 5 different folders and everytime I opened the folder the PDB format was not found. I can see it on the drive but not on the jetbook. I gave up and converted to Epub and it worked on the first time. ?????


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Panagiotis]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26605.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26605.page GMT I converted with Calibre. I used Calibre to convert it to both PDB and Epub.
For whatever reason I only see the Epub version and it looks fine, I was testing the PDB version once I read what Pavel indicated was the preferred format.]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26606.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26606.page GMT
Commercial DRM-protected ebooks sold by Fictionwise.com and eReader.com (both of which are owned by Barnes & Noble) are in the "eReader" format, and are provided in files with the extension .PDB, but not all files with that extension are in eReader format. Indeed, ".PDB" stands for "Palm Data Base," and the actual file contents can be almost anything. This extension is used because it's one of the handful that the Palm OS operating system recognizes -- if you want to read or view anything (a Word document, a PDF file, a graphic) on a Palm OS device, it needs to have a .PDB extension (or one of the few other acceptable ones).]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26609.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26609.page GMT
If you are converting with Calibre, the .PDB files are probably just plain-text files stored (somewhat compressed) inside a "Palm Data Base" wrapper; these are NOT the sort of .PDB files the jetBook - Lite reads. (And they probably DON'T have italics or other special effects in them; even if they were in the source file, they were probably stripped out during conversion to plain-text format for the Palm.)

If you're making your own ebooks, ePub is the best format to use for the jetBook - Lite, because it preserves italics, etc. It's also a format that's widely readable on other devices.

===

ROBERT J. SAWYER, Science Fiction Writer
Author FLASHFORWARD, basis for the TV series
http://sfwriter.com * sawyer@sfwriter.com
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http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/product/15001_eBookstudio_win.htm

I've been using it for a couple years now to make documents for my palm, and I think it works pretty well.]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26613.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26613.page GMT
If you just want a quick & dirty way to make a book, I use a tool called DocReader ( http://mpickering.homeip.net/content/docreader ). Technically it's a text editor. If you can get your document into plain ASCII text, open it in DocReader, save it selecting PDB as the format and hey-presto you have a Palm Doc file.

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Of course that takes forever and Calibre does everything in a batch. I am fairly new to this, about a month, but I don't want to spend more time formating a book than I do reading it.

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It supports all the normal things: bold, italic, underline, strikethough, font size, justification, super/sub scripts plus lots of other things like images, bookplate, page headers, page breaks, horizontal lines, linked comments, TOC and othe links. It lets you import txt, rtf, pml, and html preserving formatting.

It's easy to use and gets the job done well. Latest release lets you create locked books without a license.

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If you go to ereader.com, click on software on the left of the window, select your OS - Windows of MacOS only - select Ebook Studio. Towards the bottom of that page you will find a link for a demo. After you install the demo, read the PDF manual that comes with it - you will see everything you can do with it.

Panagiotis]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26647.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26647.page GMT http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26650.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26650.page GMT Most PDF's are designed for 8X10 Paper and read well on larger PC screens but the other formats offer a more fluid display because of the nature of e-readers. IMO]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26651.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26651.page GMT
Do you have a direct link to that article? Smashmouth.com seems to be some band's site..]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26652.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26652.page GMT
I meant www.smashword.com]]> http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26656.page http://www.ectaco.com/posts/preList/18914/26656.page GMT
I meant www.smashword.com[/quote]

This maybe?

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