Ereading on Creative Zen
Like other portable media players, the Creative Zen has evolved into a multimedia powerhouse that can display images and video as well as play audio files. As of early 2010, screen-equipped Creative Zen players typically lack the ability to render ebook formats directly. (A partial exception is the Creative Zen WAV, which has a text file reader.) But by converting an ebook file to an image in JPEG format, you can read an ebook on any Creative Zen player able to display a JPEG image.
Instructions
1. Download an ebook in HTML format to a subdirectory on your personal computer. Many free HTML-version ebooks (for example, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) are available from Project Gutenberg or the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center, among other websites (see Resources).
2. Download a copy of the Rasterbook software (see Resources), which "rasterizes" text in HTML format into a sequence of page images that can be viewed as if they were photo images. According to the PC Magazine Encyclopedia, to "rasterize" means to "prepare a page for display or printing." It is the process that turns text or images into the pixels that can be displayed on a screen.
3. Install the software after it downloads by agreeing to install when presented with the option. Accept the option to install a desktop shortcut icon.
4. Click on the Rasterbook desktop icon to run the software.
5. Click on Rasterbook's "File" menu option, then click on "Open" and browse your computer directory to find and select the HTML-formatted ebook file that you wish to convert.
6. Click on Rasterbook's "Render Book" option to convert the file you selected from HTML format (with file extension .html) to JPEG format (with file extension .jpeg). The image files now produced will be numbered and saved to your "My Documents" folder in a sideways format. Rotate the pages if a sideways format will not display properly on your Creative Zen screen.
7. Rename the files by highlighting all of the newly created images, right-clicking on them to choose "Rename" and typing the name of the ebook over the default name. All the files will be renamed and will load and play in the same sequential order. This step is important only if you want to save more than one ebook at a time in your Creative Zen player.
8. Plug your Creative Zen into your PC and port the newly created JPEG files of the ebook from your PC to your Creative Zen player.
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