Hi all, I've been waiting for MS Reader-only list for a while now. Nice idea! I'm interested to hear if anyone else has had the same experience using Microsoft...
Richard Crocker
richard.crocker@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:46 am
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Reader seems to hard-code volume settings. It reads Audible audio books as well, and it seems to want to set the system volume to midway by default. Very ...
Jeff Kirvin
jkirvin@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:57 pm
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Welcome! As I send this, MS_Reader now has 39 subscribers, and undoubtedly many more people will subscribe the next few days. I will post a message either...
noring@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:40 pm
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We stopped using the Reader conversion program because we were getting failures in converting large files (books of over 200,000 words) and couldn't find a...
GLB Publishers (p)
glbpubs@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:01 pm
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large files should be okay, though there are things to be careful of. We've run books much larger than that through our internal tools. What program were you...
Nate Lewis
nlewis@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:42 pm
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... My question (which I recently posed to Microsoft but have not heard back yet) is "what publicly available third-party tools now exist to convert whatever ...
noring@...
Feb 2, 2001 8:36 pm
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... From: "Nate Lewis" <nlewis@...> To: <ms_reader@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: RE: [ms_reader] Support. ... ...
GLB Publishers (p)
glbpubs@...
Feb 2, 2001 9:50 pm
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... I assume, then, you were using Microsoft's Word plug-in to produce LIT? It would not surprise me if it has size limits. ... I infer what Nate meant is the...
noring@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:11 pm
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New arrival to the list... 1. Where can you get the Microsoft free plug-in for Word 2000 to covert Word files to .lit? Had trouble finding it at the MS site....
Earl Hipp
ebook@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:23 pm
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Jon Noring wrote: SNIP ... then be ... reading ... is the ... OEBPS Pubs ... I agree completely Jon. I use Readerworks publisher, but my source files are OEB...
mcoop@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:11 pm
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... Welcome to the list! ... covert Word files to .lit? Had trouble finding it at the MS site. It's at http://www.microsoft.com/reader/info/selfpublish.htm....
wolfb@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:15 pm
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... I found: http://www.microsoft.com/reader/info/selfpublish.htm It has links to download the plug-in and documents on how to use it. I have not tried it,...
noring@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:18 pm
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Hi All, Do anyone still have a copy of the "beta" version of ReaderWorks? I'm using a Win95 box, there for I can't make use of the present freeware version. I...
Byron Collins
bcollins@...
Feb 3, 2001 2:17 pm
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Hello, I'd like to welcome everyone here to MS_Reader. We currently have over 80 subscribers, which is a good start for any mailing list. It is my hope this...
noring@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:49 pm
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... I infer what Nate meant is the tool to produce the LIT file. All Microsoft Reader does is render LIT files. One can roughly think of LIT and Microsoft ...
glbpubs@...
Feb 3, 2001 6:10 pm
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... Microsoft ... Microsoft ... conversion-plugin program. MS must have someone looking after it, don't they? ... Well, the official support for the free...
wolfb@...
Feb 3, 2001 6:42 pm
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I have tried the MS-Word plugin and liked (at first)how one button would convert to .LIT format. HOwever, since you cannot customize the cover art, or a lot of...
Rick Abbott
rick@...
Feb 3, 2001 10:02 pm
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... From: <wolfb@...> To: <ms_reader@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [ms_reader] Support. ... Thanks for the...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 3, 2001 10:12 pm
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... From: "Rick Abbott" <rick@...> To: <ms_reader@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [ms_reader] Support. ... ...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 3, 2001 11:16 pm
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I've been following some of the threads for the past day or so and guess I would like to weigh in. I tried the Word plug in and found it totally inadequate. I...
Ken Mattern
kjmatt1@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:01 am
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... From: "Ken Mattern" <kjmatt1@...> ... OK, I'll be your straight (excuse the expression) man if you want to list what formatting/processing you cover...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:05 am
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I am not surprised that you have not had many requests yet for the .LIT format. I think that it is starting to pick up steam and will hopefully become the...
Rick Abbott
rick@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:24 am
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... I looked at my old files(for deletion) and not sure which is which: are these the files? RWStan.exe 1,377 kb (Downloaded: 08/13/2000) RW_Setup.exe 6,413 kb...
busride@...
Feb 4, 2001 12:49 am
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Well I can do verse, automatic chapter breaks with appropriate titling for the TOC, conversion of hyphenation, some italics handling, stripping of spurious...
Ken Mattern
kjmatt1@...
Feb 4, 2001 4:15 am
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... From: "Ken Mattern" <kjmatt1@...> To: <ms_reader@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [ms_reader] Support. ... We...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 4, 2001 4:32 am
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... Mobipocket Publisher allows you to create LIT files. http://www.mobipocket.com/ Quark announced it's developing a free MS Reader export extension. I don't...
Richard Crocker
richard.crocker@...
Feb 4, 2001 11:09 pm
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Hi! I convert texts to the .lit format, which works pretty well with the simple litconverter.exe, but I didn't managed it up to yet to simply create text in...
Alexander Nofftz
AlexNofftz@...
Feb 5, 2001 2:03 am
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... From: "Richard Crocker" <richard.crocker@...> ... I actually read through the license given with the free 90-day download, which says the...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 5, 2001 3:17 am
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... From: "Richard Crocker" <richard.crocker@...> ... The MobiPocket Reader won't install for me because the error message says "Microsoft...
GLB Publishers
glbpubs@...
Feb 5, 2001 3:36 am
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... What is ... It sounds like you might have the wrong version. ActiveSync is used with Pocket PCs. There is also a Mobipocket Reader for PCs - it emulates...