I mentally take note of the release of the 8th book of The Women’s Murder Club. I usually find the ebook file two days after its release date just like what happened to Harry Potter ebooks. It seems that I lost my touch this time, I can’t find 8th Confession by James Patterson. I’ve been searching for two weeks. What I found was audiobook format on the 3rd day after its release date.
Although its possible to play it on my symbian phone, I still prefer reading than “hearing the book”. Depends on my mood, I might blog about mobile audiobooks soon. I’m happy that I found the ebook format. For the meantime, I have some ebook conversion to do so I can read 8th confession on my mobile. I’ll be busy for a while.
Java eBook Reader is the most common title used in thread titles referring to an eBook conversion software. I don’t want to mention the name of the software. Even on the official website of the said coversion tool, they are calling it as reader, when in fact that it is a conversion tool. Conversion tool is totally different to an ebook reader.
It is somewhat deceiving to eBookworms looking specifically for mobile application and not a PC installer. I found it deceiving and to a ebook reader searcher, it is annoying to learn after file download. No, I wasn’t deceived when I already blog the software here long time ago.
I do recommend mobipocket for S40 or another java enabled phones if they are asking for compatible readers. I also recommend converting their file to java format if they have files that need to be converted. These java format files with *.jar or *.jad extension names are stand alone readers just like *.exe ebook files meaning they are executable files or stand alone readers. There’s no need to install a separate reader for these files. I never tried executable (*.exe) ebook files on my PC after my antivirus detected a virus.
To ebook reader developers and promoters, please don’t deceived your possible buyers and consumers. I had a friend who was so disappointed when he encountered such ebook reader that’s why I’m sharing it here.
Some of the ebook conversion articles I made in the past mentioned editing a MS Word DOC file before proceeding to another conversion. In this case, MS Word will serve as the “bridge” for another conversion. The reason is because most ebook converters can convert a DOC file directly. I use MS Word as the “bridge file” in converting repligo to other ebook formats. I also use this procedure to convert PDF to LIT, without purchasing commercial ebook converters.
The image shown below is a copied text from a PDF file pasted to MS Word blank document. Most often than not, you will have the same result. Of course we cannot convert it at this point and needs to reformat.
Choppy lines is obvious breaking the lines in unexpected places, this is because the original file had encoding (if its from html before PDF), paragraph and/or line breaks. That’s why it doesn’t come out looking exactly as the copied file.
The show/hide button of MS Word is a great tool to see the markings of breaks, it is located on your toolbar. When this button is clicked, you will see the symbol to every line breaks. It is easier to see exactly where you need to edit.
Manual removing of line breaks needs a lot of patience and time especially if you’ll be editing a big ebook file size. That would mean go to the symbol and delete… a repetitive process.
The easier way is to click edit from your toolbar, then choose replace. A pop-up window will show.
Find what: ^p or click special and choose paragraph mark Replace with: ^s or click special and choose nonbreaking space
Then click Find Next button, when target line reach, click Replace button. Continue doing this until you reach the end of the document.
For other desired formatting depends on your file, choose and click from the special button in the Find and Replace window. If you plan to convert the DOC file to PRC afterwards, you might find Prepare MS Word DOC useful.
Its a known fact that PDF is the best document for PC. It is also possible to view PDF file on our cellphones and other handheld devices. There are many adobe reader or pdf reader available for mobile phones. The perfect quality of PDF file on PC is the same on a cellphone but you have to scroll or navigate around to view a single PDF document page. Take note that a PDF with lots of images can be viewed depends on mobile phones RAM (random access memory) size, older mobile phones could have a problem of “close application”.
PDF files are optimized for large screens of a PC monitor. The better the quality of a pdf file, the larger the file size. BUT it is the best source file on ebook conversion to other ebook format. Even if its NOT mobile friendly.
Repligo readers caters not for PC alone but to other handheld devices such as PALM, Nokia (S60 1st and 2nd edition), Blackberry, Android Smartphone etc. Repligo has smaller file size but with the same quality of a pdf file. Based on my experience (on Nokia phones), image can be seen only if you will view the whole page, the image is small and impossible to see the details of the image. But on PC, repligo file has the same quality as PDF except for smaller file size.
Would you install both PDF and Repligo viewers on your PC? On your handheld device? I have both of them on PC and mobile. Lets face it, PDF reader is a important on every PC. I’m using Repligo reader for PC to test my converted ebooks before transferring them on my mobile. No, I don’t read RGO files on my PC.
Some mobile eBookworms prefer to use Repligo as their mobile reader. But the developer had stopped releasing mobile reader updates for symbian 60 since 2004. I’m still and will be using repligo on my symbian phone until such time that my cellphone serves its purpose. But, if I have to give up my current Nokia unit and have to change my unit, I might change my mobile ebook reader and my love for repligo just like any mobile eBookworms.
Ever wonder what will you do to your precious repligo ebook collection? I admit, I’m taking consideration the repligo compatibility in choosing a new mobile. That was before, I changed my mind. If there’s no repligo updates, I don’t want to end up reading my repligo ebooks on my PC. I would rather find a way to save those files… and converting them to other format is the only solution I can think of. My post Convert Repligo To Other Formats is worthy enough in this case or you could check out other repligo conversion posts.
Few years back when I started on mobile ebook reading and choosing the appropriate ebook reader for me and my handheld device, the developer have conversion tools to convert other formats to repligo format. I believe there was no developer who made a software for reversing the conversion or converting repligo to other format. Imagine that it could be easier to convert those precious files in “one click”. How I wish there is such software.
There’s no harm on trying… make repligo as source file or forget your collection?
I mentally take note of the release of the 8th book of The Women’s Murder Club. I usually find the ebook file two days after its release date just like what happened to Harry Potter ebooks. It seems that I lost my touch this time, I can’t find 8th Confession by James Patterson. I’ve been searching for two weeks. What I found was audiobook format on the 3rd day after its release date.
The easier way is to click edit from your toolbar, then choose replace. A pop-up window will show.
