[GLLUG] nook ereader and sheet music

[Clay Dowling]

Julie Code wrote:
> I bought a nook ereader thinking I would save money from buying a 
> ipad.  But the problem is is that I tried taking a pdf file and 
> hooking up the device to my laptop and dragging the pdf file into the 
> documents folder of the nook.  Nothing showed up just a bunch of 
> jibberish.  Then I changed the pdf file into a epub file.  This 
> worked--  but only for the first page of the sheet music.  The other 
> pages looked like a bunch of jibberish.  Does anyone know why this is 
> happening? So my question is does anyone know why the file was good 
> for the first page and then turned to hell on the others? the program 
> i used was calibre

The chief problem is that all of the ebook readers are sad, inferior 
products.  The defacto standard for electronic publishing is pdf, and 
readers which can't handle that are destined to failure.  Plus, the 
whole incident with 1984 on the Kindle points out the biggest flaw in 
subscription-controlled devices.  You own your books for exactly as long 
as they want you too, and no more.

My recommendation would be to return the product and save that money for 
a PDF capable device (e-paper has prototypes that compete with the ipad 
and support PDF) that isn't connected to a subscription service.

Clay