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Old 06-21-2008, 05:23 AM   #3
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The best answer - unless you absolutely MUST - is not to embed fonts. Use the built-in fonts of the device. A book that looks "pretty" but takes 10x longer to turn a page than one using the device fonts is just not worth the hassle, IMHO.
It isn't at all clear to me that what kusumo means by "loading speed" is page-turn time, anyway--perhaps "loading speed" is the time the device takes to format an ebook when it's opened for the first time (and hasn't been formatted already by the Connect or eBook Library software; which format is in question, anyway--LRF, PDF, RTF?). And I really don't know how or whether one font could have a greater or lesser effect than another. But I do know it is fantastically far from the truth to say that font embedding per se entails a ten-times increase in page-turn time.
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