[LMB] OT: question about Baen book dowloads

[Sara Kasper]

I have the same problem when I download baen ebooks to my palm. What I do is
download the rtf version (rich text format) and open in MS Word. I then save
it to txt (plain txt) and substitute characters (because the special open
and close quotations, etc mess up in e-reader) and then I use the program
Dropbook from the ereader people to convert them into what I read on my palm
(pdb files).

The Dropbook program can be found here: http://www.ereader.com/dropbook

I almost always get a readable copy that way.

SK.

On 7/1/07, Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote:
>
> 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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