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This is an additional section to the JXD 951 Quick User Review / Manual / Notes blog post . How to Convert txt files to jpgs with large font and grey background for Easy-on-eye reading Ebook (or rather .txt files) reading is an important requirement for me. As mentioned earlier the small font and white background of the Ebook facility of JXD951 makes it somewhat unusable for me. Tried out an interesting solution. Steps involved are as follows: a) Convert txt file to jpg. Seems to be quite a common technique. ebook to Images (freeware) (http://www.merlinsoftware.com/ebook/index.htm) does an outstanding job of this. Settings to be used for JXD 951 are as follows: ebook to Images s/w has Creative Zen Vision W as a player option, whose picture size defaults to 480x272. Alternatively you can choose Custom and then specify the output resolution as 480x272 Set ImageType as JPG Open the text file (Using Open ebook). Set tabbed options as: Text->Encoding option as UTF-8 (instead of Auto) to...

Preamble: I had to look very hard on the net for info about JXD 951 prior to my purchase. While I did get some information (notably from mp4nation.net and mp4global.com ), I felt I needed to know more. Now that I have used the JXD 951, I thought I could provide others the information that I could not get easily from the net. BTW the company website is www.jxd.cc/en (English version), but it does not provide much information. Quick Review Overall, I find it to be a great value-for-money product. A 4" diagonal TFT screen at Rs. 4650/- (around USD 105/-) is a great bargain. Creative Zen Vision W, a 4.3" TFT screen, 30 GB mp4 product sells at around Rs. 14300/- in a (lowest price) Indian Internet shop (3 times the price of JXD 951). Of course, the Zen Vision W is a different class of product with a lot of additional features and 1 year manufacturer's warranty, but the point is that its cheapest model costs 3 times the price of JXD 951. Video quality of the JXD 951 is vivid...

Telugu Learning Resources Last Updated on 4 th July 2008 Paper Books 1) Conversational Telugu, A Microwave approach by N.D. Krishnamurthy, J. Venkateswara Sastry Published by NDK Institute of Languages, Bangalore Excellent book. Only English (Latin) script is used and so one does not need to know Telugu script. The book is quite comprehensive and modern (as compared to C.P. Brown, Sankaranarayana etc.). I found this book to be very useful when I was learning (and still continue to learn) Telugu. This book deals with Telugu grammar as well and I feel that it hits the sweet spot in having just the right amount of grammar one needs to learn to converse in Telugu reasonably. Available at Sapna Book Store, Bangalore for around Rs. 300/- url: http://sapnaonline.com/ Contact Telephone: 91-80-40114455 Note that Sapna has 3 or 4 outlets in Bangalore . 2) Learn Telugu in 30 days, National Integration Language series. A starter book. Nonetheless, I fo...