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Originally Posted by Archon
...PDF's are basically pictures of a page and are not "reflowable". Which is to say, they cannot have their type size changed or adjusted to the reader.
So, I would attempt to change ALL fiction books possible to epub's for the Nook.
Books like "Mastering Regular Expressions" (a computer tech book) have many type changes and special characters and don't take well to being converted to epub. You lose all the formatting of a "for dummies" book for instance. I leave these books as pdf's and view them on my iPad or computer. For these reasons and the limited size of the Nook's screen I haven't even attempted to read a pdf on the Nook.
The best thing about epub is you can resize or change fonts to your liking by most readers. PDF's can't do that but they work good for magazines or comic books.
You didn't say but if you have a Color Nook the pdf's would certainly look much better for magazines and such. Otherwise your profile just says Nook and the B&W of the classic Nook will not render magazines and pictures very well.
Happy Sunday
Archon
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Thank you very much, Archon. Yes, it's a B&W Nook (I thought "Nook" meant that and that to specify the color one it's "Nook Color," but whatever.
I appreciate the tips. I converted each of the books in question to epub and it seems to have done the trick, though I will surely be on the lookout for ones that don't cooperate. As a noob to readers and the various formats I'm just now learning what a PITA it can be in some instances trying to view/convert. I will try to stay away from .pdf based on your advice, but some things don't seem available in other formats.
If I have this problem again with a .pdf and converting to .epub doesn't yield good results is there another format that might work?
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Originally Posted by user_none
Setting metadata on PDF files does not always work.
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Yes, that's clear! Thanks.