mpbasher52

has anyone noticed that ebooks that theyve converted to .lit through word take a REALLY long time to open up on the axim compared to other ebooks

Talyn

If you're referring to using Microsoft's RMR (Read in MS Reader) plugin -- yes -- it does not strip out the excess "Office" tags before creating the LIT file, so the file is larger than it need be, and takes longer for Reader to open.

Dr. Kildare

Try Overdrive ReaderWorks (it's free), I've converted several Word documents to .lit and they seem to work just fine without any abnormal delay and it also supports HTML docs as well.

janine248

http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/downloads/

choose 'Standard' for the free one

Talyn

Also try LitSprout, they have several freeware LIT tools. I don't do LIT anymore, so no, I don't have any personal experience with any of their stuff.

mpbasher52

well thanks for the help the overdrive program works fine, but i did have to tweeak around my word document a whole lot before it became the right size on my axim ended up makin like 6 of the same ebooks before i found teh right size

mpbasher52

now i just gotta get back to the page i was at, 1264

fingers gonna be down on that jog dial for a while.

mpbasher52

ok wait it worked instantaniously at first butr now it takes like 5 minutes to load the book!

mpbasher52

onlythe one i made with overdrives software is slow, and teh file is just as big if not smaller than most of my other books

Talyn

Here's a tip when using any of the LIT generators (OverDrive, etc.):

If using Word, first save the document as a "Filtered Web Page" which will strip out all the excess MS tags. I think there are other apps out there that can further clean up the mess that Word makes out of X/HTML but Save As... Web Page, Filtered is a good start to shortening the overall size of the book.

mpbasher52

ok so far everyones method has worked fine....for the first time i open the book, then when i try to open it again it becomes slow again, probobly consecutivedly slower than the time before that.

what is wrong with my ebooks!! its only the one i converted to .lit that does this! please help me, i dont feel like waiting 5 minutes for my book to open!

Talyn

Personally, I'd suggest using a different format altogether. I'm not a Microsoft basher by any means, but I tend to draw the line at Reader -- it's atrocious. I'm not much of a MobiPocket fan either (yet anyway) but it sounds like you're making your own LIT books, so you'll be able to use those same source files to create a PRC for MobiPocket for free too. At least it's faster all-around and more configurable than Reader.

mpbasher52

is there a .doc to .whatever other format i need format?

and which reader will i need?

mpbasher52

and in case anyone has any ideas concerning my ebook problems post answers here, i realized it was a data problem not an ebook

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...threadid=25928

borderline

I've made several e-books from MSword, and have come up with a couple of rules that make opening them quicker.

1. Always use a custom cover, sized correctly for your handheld screen. It seems the default cover MS wants you to use is too large, and your PDA has to take some time to resize it.

2. At the end of every chapter, place a page-break. I think MSreader repaginates your ebook every time you open it, but it only seems to start from the last page break. If I leave off reading at the first page of a chapter, my ebooks open almost instantaneously when I reopen them. If I read 10~20 pages into a chapter, there is a short delay, but not nearly as long as if I've read almost to the end of a book without any page-breaks. In that case I often wait a couple minutes before it finishes opening.

bp