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ArmadilloPilot · 03-03-2011, 07:28 PM

Yesterday, I checked out from the library a book that happened to be a PDF. I opened the book in my reader and one page said that the pdf was optimized for 1024 x 768. Obviously, they created this PDF for viewing on a computer.

Nevertheless, I continued reading and noticed that words that were end of line hyphenated in the original text were now sitting in the middle of a line - but the hyphens were still there. If I put the zoom setting to fonts = 's', then the hyphenated words appeared appropriately placed. However, the text is really too small to read.

So after all that, my question is: what do you do about this? Is it just that PDF books are inconvenient on a Sony and are to be avoided in favor of ePubs whenever possible? Is there any way for a user to "re-optimize" the PDF for reading on 6" Reader screen?

03-03-2011, 07:28 PM	#1
ArmadilloPilot Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Texas Device: Pocketbook Verse Pro	Reading PDF eBooks on a Sony Yesterday, I checked out from the library a book that happened to be a PDF. I opened the book in my reader and one page said that the pdf was optimized for 1024 x 768. Obviously, they created this PDF for viewing on a computer. Nevertheless, I continued reading and noticed that words that were end of line hyphenated in the original text were now sitting in the middle of a line - but the hyphens were still there. If I put the zoom setting to fonts = 's', then the hyphenated words appeared appropriately placed. However, the text is really too small to read. So after all that, my question is: what do you do about this? Is it just that PDF books are inconvenient on a Sony and are to be avoided in favor of ePubs whenever possible? Is there any way for a user to "re-optimize" the PDF for reading on 6" Reader screen?