Thread: PRS-505 with large number of books?
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Old 06-23-2008, 12:38 PM   #12
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by RWood View Post
The default fonts on the Sony are Dutch (Times), Swiss (Ariel), and Courier. If you want a font other than these you need to embed that font (or at least the glyphs used.) Since you indicated that you would be happy with the Ariel (or at least could live with Ariel) then there is no need to embed that font. What you need to do is to ensure that the conversion program -- either calibre or BookDesigner -- uses that font as the body text. (I favor a serif font for the body text and format all of my books that way.)
Ok, that sounds fine.

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Once a font is set for a book at the time the file was created it cannot be changed. The base font size (i.e.: 11 point) is also set then. In LRF, DOC, and RTF files there are three (3) size options -- S, M, and L -- that the user may select while reading. The base font size is the "S" option. There are no meaningful size selections for PDF files. What you see is what you get.
So on the device you can only zoom in, not out?
It would seem sensible then to set a pretty small point size when creating the file. What sizes are available, or as I assume TrueType fonts are used, is there no restriction other than readability?

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As for keeping a large number of books available for reading, the Sony's indexing scheme is not the best. All titles available on a device are listed in one flat list. The situation is a bit better for collections. I felt that it was not enough better so I don't use it.
I guess really I'm not going to be sure one way or the other whether I'll be able to get on with this until I try it out.

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The Sony Reader (both models) will prepaginate the ebooks. When the file is loaded by the Sony eLibrary this is done on the PC using the processing power of the PC. When the file is loaded by calibre or directly to a Memory Stick or SD card outside the eLibrary software this is done by the somewhat slower processor inside the Reader. Depending upon how many files are involved this may take quite a while.
So would it make sense to create the files with calibre, but then use the Sony software to add them to the device? Or is it a case of one or the other?
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