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+ Created by Kovid Goyal © 2008
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+ At the moment libprs500 has full support for the SONY PRS500 and PRS505. However, using the "save to disk" function you can use it with any ebook reader that exports itself as a USB disk. +
+ ++ libprs500 reads metadata from the following formats: LRF, PDF, LIT, RTF, OPF, MOBI, PRC, EPUB. + In addition it can write metadata to: LRF, RTF, OPF +
++ libprs500 supports the conversion of the following formats to LRF: HTML, LIT, MOBI, PRC, EPUB, RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS. It also supports the conversion of LRF to LRS and HTML(upcoming). Note that libprs500 does not support the conversion of DRMed ebooks. +
++ In order of decreasing preference: LIT, MOBI, HTML, PRC, RTF, TXT, PDF +
++ The PDF conversion tries to extract the text and images from the PDF file and convert them to and HTML based ebook. Some PDF files have images in a format that cannot be extracted (vector images). +
++ When you import books into the library, they are stored in a database. The database location can be found out by clicking the configuration button (The button with the icon of a hammer next to the search bar). +
++ You can save your books to the disk by selecting the books and clicking the "Save to disk" button. Your books will be saved in nicely organized folders. +
++ You should not use both libprs500 and Connect to transfer books to the reader. You can fix this problem by: +
++ If you use the GUI to convert an HTML file, you have to create a zip file with the HTML file and any images it references and then convert that ZIP file to LRF. +
+ +web2lrf --url http://mywebsite.com default+ +
+ You have two choices: +
++ You can get help on any individual feature of the converters by mousing over it in the GUI or running html2lrf --help at a terminal. A good place to start is to look at the following demo files that demonstrate some of the advanced features: +
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+ Created by Kovid Goyal © 2008
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The Graphical User Interface (GUI) provides access to all - library management and ebook format conversion features. The interface - is divided into various sections: + library management and ebook format conversion features. The basic workflow + for using libprs500 is to first add books to the library from your hard disk. + libprs500 will automatically try to read metadata from the books and add them + to its internal database. Once they are in the database, you can performa various + actions on them that include conversion from one format to another, + transfer to the reading device, viewing on your computer, editing metadata, including covers, etc. +
++ The interface is divided into various sections:
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+ A catalog is a collection of books. libprs500 can manage three different catalogs: +
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+ The Search & Sort section allows you to perform several powerful actions + on your book collections. +
+Ctrl key pressed and click on the books you want selected.Shift key pressed and click on the starting and ending book of a range
+ of books you want selected.+ You can search all the metadata by entering search terms in the search bar. Searches are case insensitive. + For example: +
+ ++ Asimov Foundation format:lrf ++
+ This will match all books in your library that have Asimov and Foundation in their metadata
+ and are available in the LRF format. You can build advanced search queries easily using the "Advanced Search Dialog"
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+ + You can search on individual fields as shown. The "Negate" checkbox implies that only results that + do not match the search expression will be returned. You can require all the search criteria to match + or any of them. + | +
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+ The configuration dialog allows you to set some global defaults used by all of libprs500. To access it, click the
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+ The Book Details display shows you extra information and the cover for the currently selected book. +
+ The Jobs panel shows you the number of currently running jobs. Jobs are tasks that run in a separate + process, they include converting ebooks and talking to your reader device. + You can click on the jobs panel to access the list of jobs. + Once a job has completed, by clicking it in the list, you can see a detailed log from that job. This is useful + to debug jobs that may not have completed successfully. +