Comments on: Howto convert between ebook formats

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:04:22 +0000

thank you for this help

By: Biswajit Ganguly

Biswajit Ganguly — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:59:17 +0000

I think all the software links that you gave are of large sizes. Is there any small software that can convert PDF or WORD docs to epub format?

By: Helene Klungvik

Helene Klungvik — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:25:55 +0000

Great!
Many of the ebooks are not properly formatted/converted from the publishers. Ebooks have not been through the proof-reading, viewing tables/columns that are poorly formatted.
Ebook devices using E-ink displays images badly. I don’t really know why, but one of my guesses would be that the images aren’t created in greyscale and for ebook devices.

By: D. Pidgeon Birdman

D. Pidgeon Birdman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:21:27 +0000

With the shape and feel of a super sized iPod the kindle just has this “feel good” about it. Just received mine today (in Denmark) and everything appears to work smoothly. Received my New York Times and bought a book. Switching between reading and reading aloud is just two clicks. Can’t wait for “reading” my new book or the Times on my way to work in the car tomorrow. Inline access (in all documents) to the build-in oxford dictionary is a great feature as is the ability to annotate.

So far I’ve only experienced a few minor issues – nothing that will prevent me from giving 5/5 stars:

* The screen updates tend to be a bit slow (although the screen in general is very impressive!)

* The book I bought was clearly scanned/auto-converted and not fully (manually) preparred for the kindle. Some spaces, line breaks, periods/commas are missing from the text. Not crucial – just a bit annoying (especially when using the ‘read aloud’ feature. Amazon should improve the QA a bit.

* No images in news papers/magazines (guess that’s to save bandwidth -> lower cost. Ok)

* Currently there appears to be no general browsing support in DK (guess that’s also a matter of bandwidth cost) – only access to wiki. Acceptable

The ease of buying books is very likely to increase my books budget – but at least it’s green . No more bad feelings about having books shipped by planes and trucks!

By: Helene Klungvik

Helene Klungvik — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42:42 +0000

Actually, I use linux and macosx for the most part which is even better
But sometimes there are some useful apps that aren’t available in those two operating systems.

By: Marc Wilson

Marc Wilson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:08:08 +0000

“(anybody wants to donate a windows vista license to me?)”

Be careful what you wish for

If XP works for you, why would you want to use twice as much RAM and CPU to do less work more slowly?

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