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Originally Posted by kilohertz53
A few more observations:
The Augen is okay as an ebook reader. It displays pdf files pretty well, although the menu options for pdfs are quite limited. Non-Adobe epubs work well, as do prc files, with lots of customization (fonts, margins, etc.) possible. Those are my primary formats, so I haven't checked any txt, rtf, html, or other supported files. Unfortunately, Adobe drm'ed epubs get treated as though they are pdfs -- slaved to the embedded page numbers that don't always fall at the end of a page. This results in missing chunks of text. I haven't tried stripping the drm and I don't know if that would make any difference without actually manipulating the file further.
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I think many of the problems with the EBA701 could be addressed by upgrading the firmware (it's a linux OS, after all), but so far, the Augen has absolutely no support information for "The Book" on its website. I think we're all beta-testers in this instance.
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I think your problem with PDF through Adobe DRM is an artifact somehow between TB and Adobe. I have looked at several commercial PDF eBooks, and since I zoom them, the text does not fit on a single page. I have had no loss of continuity on the pages turning them either with buttons or the joystick. Actually, they show the last line from the previously shown page at the very top of the new page, consistently. Makes diagrams and pictures seem slightly odd, though.
My beef with the PDF arrangement is twofold- the zoom has 2 levels- so you either view all of a page upright in a very small format, or you zoom it - it which point it goes to portrait mode - and doesn't seem to be able to get out of it. And portrait mode turned at 90 degrees from the original, not to the side with next previous buttons- so page turning if you want to look at an earlier point is only easily done with the joystick. But, since there are only two zoom levels, even in the portrait style the text is almost exactly the same size it would be in a printed book. If it is going to go to forced portrait mode, it seems to me it would have more sense to have the next /previous page buttons on the bottom as you view the reader
I think there are some major issues that need to be addressed in a firmware update- I agree with you that we are being used as beta testers.
I have looked at text and rtf, and they seem to look good and work with the font and size options available.
Rebecca
