| Victuz |
I absolutely hate reading long books/texts on a computer screen or a tablet.
Because of that I asked my family for and received a kindle. But obviously I should have done a bit more research since reading pdf's on a kindle is nothing short of agonising.
I've spent the last 2 days trying to find the best possible way to convert the CRB pdf into a readable mobi file (and other formats as well using Calibre) but so far all I've faced was utter failure.
I've almost had success using the "Kidnle Comic Converter" that is generally used for concerting comic books and manga. It managed to convert the PDF for the "Red hand of doom" adventure I have into a mobi file sucessfully.
it's still just an image of the page but at least I can break each page into 4 sections and double tap to zoom into the section, making the text actually readable (if not ideal, but it's better than nothing). Unfortunately it fails utterly at converting files from this site because it "fails to extract images from the PDF".
Suffices to say I'm stumped. Reading PDF's even in their lighter form is a pain because kindle doesn't support zooming into the image well, and often I'll accidentally go forward a page when I don't mean to and clicking "back" makes me go even further forward. I can't imagine reading the whole CRB like this, not to mention other books I got.
Please help, I need it...
| Zwordsman |
I've tried before, pretty hard, but it doesn't really work.
The reason is... PDF is made to be an end version. NOT a convertable version. SO it is very very difficult. PDF system was developed expressly to allow it to be read no matter what OS, or program is being used. "anything can open it, but can not change it" is its express purpose..
...so.. honestly its basically just under impossible to get a searchable conversion.
Ideally at some point they'll be offered in a reader format--more so because nearly all the content is already free so the requirement for watermaking PDFs and retaining non-buyer restrictions isn't that big of a deal with open sources.Though maybe its done to encourage hard cover sales, as that is likely a larger source of income so that's reasonable.
but for now.. not a lot of choices...
Screen shot-ing each page and changing them into readable chunks.
If your version allows "copy and past" then copying it all into a word document and formating it yourself.
Reading on a large tablet
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Printing the whole thing out at kinko's office max sorta place.
mainly using the website instead
These are about the only processes I've come across that makes a manageable version.
Hopefully someone else comes over and gives better advice. I spent a few months on it (on and off random googling and attempts at stuff) but never really found a sure fire nice looking version.
| Victuz |
Thanks for the answer. I was afraid that is the case. I thought I almost have something with the comic converter. It just turned the slow PDF into a much faster and zoomable mobi file. It still wasn't as ideal as say, reading it on a tablet (then again those are much more expensive then a kindle)but it was the level of annoyance I could deal with.
I really hope Paizo simply starts providing e-reader friendly formats. Not having those at this point really feels backwards.