Doesnt matter. I usually read e-books on my PDA, and i have a converter that handles just about any format and converts it to the needed one.
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Anonymous2008-12-19 7:27
Personally, I like LIT. Why? Because MS Reader is a fairly good program, with page-based reading, a good text width, automatic bookmarking and the "don't distract me with the background" full screen mode.
If I can't get LIT, I'll go with TXT. Because it's easy to bookmark - just slap 'BOOKMARK' in the text, save to disk, then later Ctrl+F to find it.
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Anonymous2008-12-19 17:03
i like lit, txt, and pdf
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Anonymous2008-12-19 19:05
PDF for textbooks, reference guides and anything else that requires looking shit up and reading chapters out of order.
Lit, html or txt for the rest.
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Anonymous2008-12-23 16:14
I prefer text, or PDF.
I tend to read my ebooks on PDA, and there is always a tool for reading PDFs, usually with nice reflow. That tool tends to cope better with large files.
On the other hand .txt you can do what you want with it i.e. convert to a format your PDA likes.
Dont see why you want to put it in word though unless you have formatting.
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Anonymous2008-12-23 18:36
I enjoyed Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. First two books are around 500-600 pages but the third one is a massive 1500 pages (conveniently split in two parts).
LIT for the reasons >>10 mentioned. HTML is my second choice because it's almost as easy to read as LIT and retains most of the formatting. I convert PDFs and DOCs to HTML as I find them somewhat clunky in practice.
TXT sucks major cock because it can't contain text in italic or bold, and it's fairly common for characters' thoughts to be typed in italic.
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Anonymous2008-12-26 14:54
>>16 characters' thoughts to be typed in italic.
Sounds pretty gay.
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Anonymous2008-12-28 2:46
The best answer is:
.rtf
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Anonymous2009-01-10 20:15
.txt for me. I then convert them so I can read books on my iPod.
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Anonymous2009-01-10 21:14
.txt or .doc, pdf occasionally does weird shit to my computer.