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Originally Posted by Deputy-Dawg
Ambertape,
It is not a problem that either Sony or Adobe can address. The problem arrises from the choice the publisher of the magazine made when he chose to publish the web edition in a format that is essentially a series of photographs, not text.
Consider, how would you put a paper copy of the magazine into the reader. Your choices would be rather limited. You could type in all the text, now that would surely be a labor of love. You might scan it in using OCR software which is rather expensive, and not 100% reliable. Well the choices you have for the web version of the magazine are pretty much limited to same choices. I would not, indeed could not type in the content. And I certainly am unprepared to hold my breath waiting for Sony, or any other reader maker to incorporate an OCR program into the software of the reader.
The only other suggestion that comes to mind would be a reader that has enough real estate to properly display the pages.
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Presumably the publisher has the source in electronic format, not just images. The text should be reflowable. Of course a magazine has lots of images so the images must be easily viewable and if advertising is included (likely) it is often an image. Color is particularly important for some magazines so for this there is no suitable reader currently available but in some magazines the iLiad would appropriate. A good cbr/cbz capability would be a way to go with zoom and pan for images within the magazine. If the magazine is really like the paper one then hyperlinks to continuing article with a return is very important but for best reader experience the continuation should just be inline.
A double page spread with pan and zoom should be provided for many magazines.
Dale