[GLLUG] nook ereader and sheet music

Karl Schuttler rexykik at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 23:44:37 EST 2010


I concur with Clay and Steve's statements.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:47 PM, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2010 20:07:30 Clay Dowling wrote:
>> 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
>
> I agree.  Castrated devices aren't worth having.  The question that arises is
> which, if any of them is a general purpose device?
>
> I want to be able to read 1) ascii, 2) postscript, 3) PDFs, 4) html, 5) MS
> Word, 6) RTF, 7) .LIT files, 8) LaTex
>
> Other possibilities might be 9) word star, 10) word perfect
>
> Whats out there that can do most of these? I'd say that 1 to 6 are really
> important.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
>
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