Thread: My Run-In With Topaz
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Old 04-11-2009, 07:49 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
What can you not do with it that you can do with a MobiPocket book?
Quite often they are hard to read. TOPAZ is typically used as an "enhanced" OCR of a scanned book where the bitmaps of the scanned characters are used as the basis for the "font". The fonts are therefore at best not anti-aliased, and at worst they include scanning artifacts like inconsistent descender thicknesses.

I don't know what ratio of returned TOPAZ ebooks are for readability vs DRM, but I'm sure Amazon sees higher returns in TOPAZ than AZW.
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