kayshapero

I recently picked up Mobipocket Creator, a lovely program for creating ebook files in the prc format from a number of other things including pdf. Which is great, given that I don't usually have time to read long items on the computer, or the paper and ink to print out large files, so I usually read large files on my PDA. And I've yet to find a pda reader for the thing that really works properly; Documents to Go doesn't handle pdf files nearly as well as it thinks it does (one gets literary jigsaw puzzles. 'nuff said.)

Alas, it would appear that if I want to convert pdfs I still have to do a few other things if I don't want the result to be mashed together; apparently it has trouble "eyeballing" paragraph returns, at least when there's no line between paragraphs. So I wind up editing the interim HTML file by hand... :( Oh well, better than nothing. And it DOES get the data out of pdf and into something that I actually can edit.

Mostly, though, I've been editing html and doc files into ebooks with the program. I also downloaded Mobipocket Reader, the latest version of which has a library catalog similar to those various music programs have music file catalogs. Nice!

I'm also just about satisfied with my first anthology - I've taken the five stories I've got up on my site and stitched them into an ebook, which I will make available there for download at some point.