My Journey into ebooks-land

[jumpuphigh]

I just posted in my journal the journey I took from not wanting a reader to shivering in anticipation of it arriving via FedEx.  I saw quite a few readers in the process and I give my opinion on them.

ereaders ho!

Comments

[tameiki]

How strange that your PRS 505 doesn't read .doc when my PRS 500 does. So does the PRS 600, 700 and Pocket edition. Well, mine do anyway. When there is a file saved as .doc, the only bad thing is that, when you're looking at the title, the words:

MICROSOFT WORD

always comes in front of the title so title and author get cut off. Don't know how to change that in the file, but otherwise, the .docs work very well.

Their adverts have always said they read .doc; they meant "just throw them in our handy interface program, and when you export to your reader, it'll be ready for you!"

Maybe that's why your PRS 505 won't take .doc files? I just take out my SD card and drag and drop the .docs I want then replace the memory card. I have no idea how to go about using their "handy interface program"... maybe being technically challenged is a good thing. XD

[elf]

I don't use their program, and almost never use Calibre. I use Windows to drag-and-drop files into my SD card. It reads rtf, but not doc; I've been caught out on the train, going to open a file I *know* I loaded, and then realizing I must not have grabbed the rtf version. (RTFs show up as whatever I've put in the Properties field for title, or by filename if I've left it blank.)

Huh. Firmware weirdness, I suppose.