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curstpriest · 11-10-2010, 10:05 AM

It really is bad for english texts...
Can't do any special characters, just omits them, so only standard encoding, it just assumes, doesn't even bother reading it from the file. Sucks for European characters.
Can't format epubs correctly - no center text, just overlays them and makes it unreadable.
Can't navigate links in epubs, Can't navigate links in mobi (Crashes)
Strange typesetting with punctuation, spaces and line breaks after commas, quotations, and periods. Sometimes you will see double quotations. Some epubs have words that run together with no spaces.

Dictionary crashes the system if you push next page.
Items get re-ordered after you view them, but if you delete them, it deletes the previous item, not the one you had selected.

Other formats like .doc are just converted, so it won't save position if you come back to them later.

There is no uninstall utility which is kind of bad, I'd rather just uninstall it, it's not that great. The translation is rather poor, but bearable.

Oh, and they also do a lot of things in a real stupid manner.
Like they have the MDB folder, and they make a tmp directory, where they throw all of their conversions for EVERYTHING in there for the past book you read. Now.. why in the hell do this? Why not just convert and save it permanently, or just use the goddamn /tmp directory in memory if it's only going to be 500k or so?

Do we really need to write to disk every time to we open a book? Little confused here
Same with word and other conversions. IDK why it doesn't just do the conversion once and then work with the converted file after that.

11-10-2010, 10:05 AM	#154
curstpriest Confused Posts: 402 Karma: 5538 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: Kindle DXG	It really is bad for english texts... Can't do any special characters, just omits them, so only standard encoding, it just assumes, doesn't even bother reading it from the file. Sucks for European characters. Can't format epubs correctly - no center text, just overlays them and makes it unreadable. Can't navigate links in epubs, Can't navigate links in mobi (Crashes) Strange typesetting with punctuation, spaces and line breaks after commas, quotations, and periods. Sometimes you will see double quotations. Some epubs have words that run together with no spaces. Dictionary crashes the system if you push next page. Items get re-ordered after you view them, but if you delete them, it deletes the previous item, not the one you had selected. Other formats like .doc are just converted, so it won't save position if you come back to them later. There is no uninstall utility which is kind of bad, I'd rather just uninstall it, it's not that great. The translation is rather poor, but bearable. Oh, and they also do a lot of things in a real stupid manner. Like they have the MDB folder, and they make a tmp directory, where they throw all of their conversions for EVERYTHING in there for the past book you read. Now.. why in the hell do this? Why not just convert and save it permanently, or just use the goddamn /tmp directory in memory if it's only going to be 500k or so? Do we really need to write to disk every time to we open a book? Little confused here Same with word and other conversions. IDK why it doesn't just do the conversion once and then work with the converted file after that. Last edited by curstpriest; 11-10-2010 at 10:24 AM.