How to Send eBooks to your MP3/MP4 Player

Taking your music, pictures and videos with you is awesome. But, how about taking your eBooks with you? A lot of mp3 players now have the ability to store eBooks on them. They are great for taking books with you without having to keep track of an actual book. The first thing I figured out when trying to transfer an eBook to my son's mp4 player was that it didn't support the .pdf format. The .pdf format is the most common format for most documents and eBooks. You can download some great eBooks to your computer and read them there in the .pdf format with programs like Adobe Reader. MP3/4 players are a little different. You need to convert your .pdf document or book to a .txt format. There are a few free programs available to do this for you. The one I am using is called A-PDF Text Extractor. You simply open your A-PDF Text Extractor program, and from the toolbar, choose Open. Then locate the file your .pdf document or book is stored in. Then choose to change to .txt, and click Extract Text. When the program is done, it will open your document or book in WordPad. I would take a moment to review your file at this point. Sometimes unusual symbols show up between lines and sentences. If they are visible in the WordPad file, they will show up on your player. This is distracting to try to read around. You may try another program if this happens repeatedly. You should also check at this point to make sure that the entire document or book was converted. Sometimes just one page is converted. You want to read the whole thing, not just part of it. Once your document or book looks the way you want it to in WordPad, you are ready to send it to your player. Open your Removable Drive folder that your USB cord from your player is plugged into on your computer. Then open the folder with the converted .txt file in it. Then just "drag and drop" or "copy and paste" your book to your player. Once the book is on your player, disconnect the USB cord and open the book on your player. Enjoy your book!