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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek
The 505 model has that too. I don't think it's a bug - I think that it does that so that when you are reading a scanned PDF, for example, and the bottom of the screen cuts out the bottom half of a line, you can read the full line on your next page advance. I'm fairly sure that all of their models have that. On the 505 the repeated text is in a lighter font. A lot of people are irritated by that, but I can see how someone would find it useful (I have, at times, for one; it is an annoyance sometimes, though).
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First, of all it's NOT just a single line, but more like 1/3 to 1/2 the screen that overlaps.
Second, it's not just for PDF, it also effects EPUB, and there is no reason that re-flowed text like EPUBs should work differently in landscape than portrait.
Your excellent point about maintaining continuity for scanned text and figures not withstanding, I haven't seen a single book reader review site that mentions this as anything but a BUG, and the fact that this has been this way in the Sony products for a long time just makes it worse, not better.
While it's true that some readers (like FBreader) actually let you set the number of lines-to-overlap on a page feed, there is NO WAY it should be doing this without a specific specialized user setting telling it to, as most PDF and EPUB readers default to ZERO lines overlap (and manage to keep this value for
both portrait
and landscape orientations just fine without problems).
Honestly, I see your point, but I think that like 'margin cut' and other specialized page options, this is NOT something that should be the default. For EPUBs I can't think of any valid excuse why it should work the way it does EVER unless Sony wants to include a separate "lines-to-overlap-on-page-feed" option setting for Portrait AND Landscape modes (in which case, the default values for both modes should be ZERO anyway!)