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May I ask what your own experience of the matter has been? What impact have you found that embedding fonts has made in the e-books that you've created?
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My experience with PDFs with embedded fonts, formatted for the Sony Reader, is very extensive--this is the format I've primarily used in formatting content for my use on the Reader. The comparison here must be with LRFs without embedded fonts. (I've never made a PDF
without embedded fonts for the Reader--not much point in doing that.) The difference in page-turn time is definite but not what I'd call dramatic, and nowhere near ten times. On the PRS-505, it's approximately 1 to 2 seconds (and closer to 1 than to 2, on average, I'd say) versus approximately one-half second. Negligible to me, really--but I'm not a very fast reader, I admit.
I've also made 2 or 3 LRF files with embedded fonts. One, I recall, seemed to be undistinguishable in page-turn time from the average PDF with embedded fonts, one perhaps a mite slower, but this is hardly enough experience to base a sweeping judgment on, except that I've no reason to doubt that anyone who wanted to pursue this would be able to achieve satisfactory results.
I did, some time ago, download your LRF of Odyssey Book 1. I thought it was distinctly but not horribly or even quite dramatically slow. Is that the whole basis of your dire (and I think rather more than slightly exaggerated) warnings against font embedding? Not a sufficient one, I'd say.