Thread: rtf versus epub
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Old 03-13-2011, 08:58 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by sovre View Post
I'm just curious what are the differences (not so much technically, but as a reader would experience them) between epub and rtf?
Sony's RTF reading doesn't include images, and the font options are limited to the defaults (serif, sans serif, monospace). It doesn't support linking or a TOC (I believe; it's been a long time since I tried anything more than basic formatting options). And as you mentioned, epub is condensed; it has smaller filesizes, especially for anything with complex formatting.

That said, I read a lot of RTFs on my Sony. I set the body text font size to 14 pt, line spacing to 1.2, and indent paragraphs .25" for first lines. I have to remember to turn off the orphan line settings, or I wind up with a lot of pages with whitespace at the bottom; I'd rather deal with a single line starting a paragraph than a half-inch of unused space on the screen. It does acknowledge page breaks, so I use those at chapter breaks. Works fine for novels; wouldn't work for anything I'd want for research.
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