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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I think that I would prefer a universal viewer to a universal format. And I really think that the publishers could get a large variety of prices based on the complexity of the format. For the cheap buyers there would be txt, and then the prices can increase with format. I think that I would really pay allot to see a digital format masterpiece that can rival the one in "House of Leaves".
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I don't see a universal viewer happening. The closest I can think of at the moment is the open source FBReader application, cross-platform, and available for Windows and Linux, with a Java version for other things.
It views ePub, Mobipocket, Plucker, CHM, and an assortment of other things, but does not provide the support for the various formats available in a dedicated viewer, and it doesn't do PDFs. It works well enough for me, as it means I can view my Plucker documents on my Windows desktop, and Linux notebook as well as my PDA, but while it displays ePub and Mobi files, some features aren't supported. (And the Java version does not yet support all the formats viewed by the original.)
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I think that the biggest annoyance was the horizontal scrolling. I ended up trying to zoom out as much as possible just to get the whole line of text on the screen.
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That's why while I
can view PDFs on my PDA, I don't unless there's no other option. Sideways scrolling to read a full line is painful, and while the PDA viewer can reflow text if the PDF is tagged for it, the PDFs I might want to view on it don't have that tagging.
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Dennis