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On the other hand, you can update the default fonts used for LRF rendering. That updates all books at a time, without having to actually modify any of them, and the rendering speed is excellent.
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I may be conflating work between LRF and ePub formatting, but I had the impression that a font could be referenced in an LRF the same way as in ePub (i.e. font file loaded on the reader once in a fonts folder and referenced through CSS overriding) using Calibre. That was what I was originally trying to do before I tried the ePub route. My issue with ePub is the lack of fully-justified paragraphs. That's a deal-breaker in my book (so to speak) -JPB Last edited by Dahak; 06-25-2009 at 09:57 AM. |
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It may be an avenue of last resort, though. -JPB |
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But, if you do change the default LRF fonts, you will need to remove every LRF eBook off of the reader and put them back on using either eBook Library or Calibre. And if you do choose to use eBook Library, you'll need to change the fonts in the fonts directory of eBook Library to the fonts you changed on the Reader so it'll know how to paginate.
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With ePub, you can use external fonts loaded on the Reader via the CSS and they work fine and are not slow at all. |
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That's part of why I don't want to bother with changing the reader's global default font. Thanks for the reminder. It never hurts to be sure someone knows all the sordid little details, especially a 505-newbie like me. -JPB |
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With the price of hardware these days, maybe it is time to re-evaluate static linking. Ugly as hell, but bulletproof solution for packaging self-contained binaries. Back to the size of flash on our readers, I immediately bought SD card to go with my 505. A few weeks later, the conclusion was that the number of books is bigger concern than their size. At least it is for me, with the current software. Bookshelf/library implementation is decent, but lack of hierarchical (folder) structure makes it cumbersome to list, sort and search more than 50 or so books on the device. Now my SD card acts as backup device for the books that I already read, and stays away from the slot (faster start). Internal memory, even with "fat" ePubs holds sufficient amount of reading material to keep me busy for a long time. |
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I remember writing self-modifying code to save a few bytes that I could then allocate to needed working buffers within limited - and fixed - memory constraints. The current attitude (which has been around for well over a decade) of 'memory is cheap' strikes me as slightly offensive and more specifically as lazy. Yes. You can just go out and buy a bigger flash card, but that doesn't mean that you should. -JPB |
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