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Doug Pardee · 06-17-2010, 05:42 PM

An ePub book can force a font that is included within the ePub file if it wants to. This is useful for ePubs written in, say, Russian or Korean or Greek. The NOOK doesn't contain a variety of languages in its fonts.

Unfortunately, some English-language e-books abuse the feature and do the same. If the e-book doesn't have DRM you could put it into an ePub editor and fix that, but it's probably not worth the trouble and the e-book probably has DRM anyway.

This is covered in the NOOK manual (bottom of p. 111 in my copy of the 1.3 manual):

EPUB Format: Content is displayed using fonts embedded in the EPUB file if present. If fonts are not embedded, content is displayed in the text font you choose in the Reader.

06-17-2010, 05:42 PM	#5
Doug Pardee Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 106318 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: B&N NOOK 3G	Fonts forced in ePubs An ePub book can force a font that is included within the ePub file if it wants to. This is useful for ePubs written in, say, Russian or Korean or Greek. The NOOK doesn't contain a variety of languages in its fonts. Unfortunately, some English-language e-books abuse the feature and do the same. If the e-book doesn't have DRM you could put it into an ePub editor and fix that, but it's probably not worth the trouble and the e-book probably has DRM anyway. This is covered in the NOOK manual (bottom of p. 111 in my copy of the 1.3 manual): EPUB Format: Content is displayed using fonts embedded in the EPUB file if present. If fonts are not embedded, content is displayed in the text font you choose in the Reader.