[LMB] OT: question about Baen book dowloads

Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org
Mon Jul 2 01:59:58 BST 2007


On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:53:58PM -0700, Jean Lamb wrote:
> When I download some books from Baen, either from the Free Library or my 
> little Liaden orgy, I discover that when I download them using the format 
> for Palm Pilot as my choice, that the book show up on my Tungsten with all 
> the html markings written out.
> 
> I find this annoying, frankly. I am tempted to pull them into Word (which 
> reads HTML just fine), save as a word document, and read them as word 
> documents instead.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is anybody else having this problem? (I use 
> the prc format for e-reader because I like tapping the bottom of the screen 
> to go to the next page. But with say, I DARE, there's so much HTML garbage 
> it's almost unreadable. My machine is the Palm Tungsten E2).

Isn't the PRC the Mobi format?  Do you have Mobipocket installed, is
it the app that's opening them?

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Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org



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