How Do I Choose the Best eBook Formats?

E-book format is a convention for file encoding and file structure when using e-books, which is easy to distinguish. Like a key to unlock a lock, different files have to be read, displayed, written, opened, or run in different ways. It is divided into PC e-book format and mobile e-book format. PC e-book formats include EXE, TXT, HTML, HLP, etc., and mobile e-book formats include UMD, JAR, and so on.

EBook format

1 HTM (HTML) to TXT

Required software: HTML2TXT.exe

Note: Start the software, click the "Add File" button to find the HTML file to be converted; select an output folder, and then click the "Start" button to get the decompiled HTM file.

2 CHM to TXT

Required software: CHM Encoder

Note: Start the software and click the "Open" button to find the CHM file to be converted. Select an output folder and click the "Start" button to get the decompiled HTM file. Then execute the HTM (HTML) to TXT steps mentioned above to get the TXT file.

3 PDF to TXT

Software required: PDF Text Converter

Note: After starting the software, first find the folder where the PDF file is located in the browser window at the upper left. At this time, the PDF file in the folder will be displayed in the file list window at the lower left. Click the "Add File" button on the toolbar, and the files waiting to be converted will be listed in the upper right window. After the addition is complete, click the gear-shaped "Convert" button to complete the conversion. The converted TXT file Save in the folder where the source file is located.

4 JAR to TXT

Required software: WinRAR

Note: As long as WinRAR is installed on your computer, you can right-click the JAR file and unzip it directly. What you need to do at this moment is to add these files with no extension to the extension of TXT and merge them (the shortcut method will be introduced below)

5 UMD to TXT

Required software: XBookMaker

Note: After launching the software, click the "Open folder" button on the upper left to locate the folder containing the UMD e-book. At this time, the "Files" window on the left will list all UMD format files contained in the folder E-book, click on a UMD file, the chapters in the e-book will be displayed in the "Chapters" window at the bottom left Click on any chapter, you can see the content of that chapter in the right window. Now you just need to copy and paste it into Notepad and save it as TXT,

6 EXE to TXT

Required software: miniKillEBook

Note: first open the EXE e-book you want to convert, then start miniKillEBook, select the "Save as text" check box, drag the icon in the figure into the e-book window, and click the "Start" button, and the software will Automatically flip through the e-book and save the contents of each page as TXT text. ^[1]

Major Japanese book publishers and digital publishing companies have recently reached consensus that they will use the EPUB 3.0 standard as the e-book publishing format.

EPUB is an electronic book standard proposed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It is a free and open standard, including three file format standards (the file extension is .epub). EPUB has been widely used in Europe and the United States, replacing the previous Open eBook standard.

At present, the publishing of e-books has become a hot topic in the scientific and technological circles and the book publishing world. Analysts expect that this decision from Japan will have a significant impact on the global e-book market landscape.

The txt e-book is actually the electronic text without any processing. It is the simplest display text. Its encoding is divided into ansi, unicode, unicode big endian, and utf-8. These codes can be browsed normally on computers. Ansi encoding is commonly used in computers, but mobile phones are different. Generally, mobile phones default to unicode encoding. If the encoding is not recognized, garbled characters will appear. Of course, this situation will improve as the mobile phone gradually develops. In other words, the easiest way to make a txt e-book is to change the encoding to unicode when you save the conventionally encoded electronic data.

exe e-book , among the many e-book formats, is the most complicated one, but it is also the most beautiful and the most versatile. The process is to first divide the content text in txt format, separate multiple TXT texts by chapter, and then Make an html collection (page illustration and e-book cover) respectively, and finally make an e-book file with the extension of .exe through the e-book packaging software.

pdf e-books are generally produced with Foxit PDF Editor. They are basically divided into two types: text version, and the other is to directly copy the full text of paper books into pictures. The collection is pdf e-book.

Jar e-book is actually transcoding txt electronic text into unicod code, and then using mobile phone e-book production software to improve the functionality and practicality again, basically equivalent to the upgraded version of txt e-book

Pros and cons of various e-books

The advantages of txt e-books : small size, the original carrier of various e-books, disadvantages: no function, not beautiful

The advantages of exe e-book : beautiful and beautiful, multi-function, chapter catalogs, page scrolling, neat layout, without the need of any reading software. Disadvantages : The volume is relatively large and cannot be viewed on mobile phones at present

The advantages of pdf e-books: intuitive, with a chapter directory, average aesthetics, and general functions, using ADOBE ACROBAT PROFESSIONAL software can add annotations (marks, text, pictures, etc.) very easily. Disadvantages: Among all e-book formats, pdf e-books have the largest volume and cannot be viewed on mobile phones (currently on third-party software such as Android and Apple smartphones can be opened and viewed)

Advantages of jar e-books: Compared to txt, the function of bookmarks has been added. Disadvantages: limited to viewing on mobile phones, slightly larger than txt format, can not be viewed on a computer

The advantages of epub e-books: there is a chapter directory, the text display size is optional, the layout is free, and it is suitable for proportion screen reading. Disadvantages: used on PC, the volume is slightly larger than the txt format, you can not add notes, etc., but if you just read and consider the file size, epub is a good choice.

Which format of the e-book is good, in fact, it does nt matter whether it s good or bad, there is no best, but only the more suitable. If you like to read the e-book in your computer, I do nt pay attention to the beautiful suggestion. You can read the e-book in txt or pdf format. Pay attention to pleasing to choose exe e-books. If you only like to watch e-books on mobile phones, I suggest you choose txt or jar. If you want to be more detailed, choose jar format. If you are an ebook enthusiast, it is still recommended that you choose the exe ebook. The above various e-book networks are not uncommon, TXT is more like the starting point of the Chinese website, there are a lot of red sleeves, etc. There are relatively few exe formats such as 58L e-books, or worry-free is pretty good. With the development of the times, our mobile phones will be like computers. Or, mobile phones and computers are basically the difference between small computers and large computers. It is believed that by then, the so-called display of any form of e-books will be Yipingpingchuan. , There is no obstacle to the media.