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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem is not the book itself, but the software used to read the ebooks.
1. No hyphenation
2. No widow support
3. No font families, just the main normal font
4. No curly quotes/curly apostrophes
I don't see how simple words are a problem. I just too a pbook, opened it to a random page and found simple words. If you don't have the simple words, you can end up with larger spacing between the words in the line.
With libprs500 and Book Designer, you can control the word spacing. I tend to use a smaller then normal word spacing. But part of the issue with that is lack of hyphenation. If we has that, we'd have less lines with wide word spacing.
As for #4, I most of the time do bother to fix them. They look better when not the straight kind.
As for 1-3, these can be easily fixed in software. But will they be? What we should do is let Sony know of these issues and hopefully when we get the next firmware update, they'll be fixed.
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I do not believe that it is the software that is used to read the book that is at fault. It is the software used to generate the book that has to work properly. Except in the case of MobiPocket and some other PDA softare the pages are generally prebuilt for most devices. So it really depends on the device as to where the problem lies.
Dale