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jswinden · 03-25-2010, 03:36 PM

Sony actually did away with the annoying greying of the divider text in the page center when in landscape mode for the PRS900. They also allowed for fully justified text in ePubs on the PRS900. so they know about the problems and can fix them if they will only update the firmware.

BTW, the greyed dividing text is not shown on the PRS300 when viewing a LRF (BBeB) book. I've actually started stripping the DRM and converting my ePubs into LRF format for a few reasons.

No greyed out dividing text in landscape mode
No stupid page number in the right margin
Option to use full justification of text (I like it better than left justified)
More control of font selection (see below)

I personally find that reading on an e-Ink or LCD screen I prefer a sans serif font, whereas when reading a printed book on paper I prefer a serif font. I wondered about that for a long time until I came across an article on web page design back in the early 1990's. The article suggested using sans serif fonts for web pages because scientific research indicated that the human eyes can read sans serif fonts on computer monitors much better than serif fonts. The reason, they said, was that the low resolution of computer monitors compared to a printed page caused human eyes to have trouble interpreting the serifs (small projections on letters). This made sense to me. Of course computer monitors have since gone from 640x480 resolution to several times that, but the e-Ink screens are still mostly 600x800 so they are still way below the resolution of a printed page. For that matter, the modern LCD screens for computers are still below the resolution of a printed page. Bottomline is that I get a lot less eye strain from reading sans serif text on my PRS300 than I do with serif text. And since you cannot adjust the contrast on a PRS300 screen, I convert my ePubs into fully justified LRf that uses the PRS300 system sans serif font and I make all the text bold. The result is a much easier to read book in which I can ultimately read for a much longer time before my eyes call a time out. Since I'm not embedding any fonts into the LRF file, it is only marginally (10-20%) larger than the ePub file and loads and turns pages as fast as the ePub.

Here's a sample of the difference:

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03-25-2010, 03:36 PM	#10
jswinden Nameless Being	Sony actually did away with the annoying greying of the divider text in the page center when in landscape mode for the PRS900. They also allowed for fully justified text in ePubs on the PRS900. so they know about the problems and can fix them if they will only update the firmware. BTW, the greyed dividing text is not shown on the PRS300 when viewing a LRF (BBeB) book. I've actually started stripping the DRM and converting my ePubs into LRF format for a few reasons. No greyed out dividing text in landscape mode No stupid page number in the right margin Option to use full justification of text (I like it better than left justified) More control of font selection (see below) I personally find that reading on an e-Ink or LCD screen I prefer a sans serif font, whereas when reading a printed book on paper I prefer a serif font. I wondered about that for a long time until I came across an article on web page design back in the early 1990's. The article suggested using sans serif fonts for web pages because scientific research indicated that the human eyes can read sans serif fonts on computer monitors much better than serif fonts. The reason, they said, was that the low resolution of computer monitors compared to a printed page caused human eyes to have trouble interpreting the serifs (small projections on letters). This made sense to me. Of course computer monitors have since gone from 640x480 resolution to several times that, but the e-Ink screens are still mostly 600x800 so they are still way below the resolution of a printed page. For that matter, the modern LCD screens for computers are still below the resolution of a printed page. Bottomline is that I get a lot less eye strain from reading sans serif text on my PRS300 than I do with serif text. And since you cannot adjust the contrast on a PRS300 screen, I convert my ePubs into fully justified LRf that uses the PRS300 system sans serif font and I make all the text bold. The result is a much easier to read book in which I can ultimately read for a much longer time before my eyes call a time out. Since I'm not embedding any fonts into the LRF file, it is only marginally (10-20%) larger than the ePub file and loads and turns pages as fast as the ePub. Here's a sample of the difference: ... Attached Thumbnails Last edited by jswinden; 03-25-2010 at 03:40 PM.