[bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma

  • From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:42:45 -0400

Hi,
It is possible for txt files to contain page break characters, but programs
usually strip them out when you save them..

Thanks.

Jim

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Hi, all, I've heard from at least one reliable source that .txt files can't
be used on bookshare and if they are saved as rtf files, they'll lose
formatting.  The file I have, I had to save to this format because the book
wouldn't read properly with pdf adobe and jaws, and while I was getting
signed up as a bookshare member, I was told I could submit txt files by a
bookshare staff member.  I believe my reliable source that says you can't
submit .txt files to bookshare, I just wanted to ask out here as well to
see if there's any hope at all whatsoever as I've got a friend who has
quite a few books on txt as well as rtf and a few ark's, and all totaled,
she has a sizable collection that I'd love to see added to the bookshare
library.  Any suggestions or light on the subject would be greatly
appreciated as neither of us felt that it would be a problem to save files
this way or we would have saved them originally as rtf so they would be
appropriate for bookshare.  Thanks a bunch and have a blessed day.

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