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Old 10-03-2008, 12:18 AM   #136
cfc
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Device: Kindle 2, Sony PRS-300, Sony PRS-350
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Unlike the Kindle the font sizes are not fixed. The smallest font size is determined by the book author and then scaled up from there. The older 505 and prior had 3 levels of fonts sizes (2 up from the default). The 700 have 5 levels which means the largest should be quite a bit bigger but still not an absolute number.

You can program the strokes to be what you want but I am not sure about just touch. The default for just touch is to zoom (increase the font size). I am not sure what other strokes can be recognized or how programmable they are.

Dale
That is one thing I didn't like about my PRS-500, one books large font would be the same size as anothers medium. When I would import Baen books in RTF, I would edit it first to increase the font size. But you can't do that with books from the Sony store.

I think I'll just have to wait to see it in the Sony retail store.

I think another good feature would be if Sony would allow people to browse their bookstore in a normal web browser, purchase a book and download it to be copied onto the reader with the USB cable. When on vacation you could use any available computer to purchase a new book.

For me, I think the most important new features might be considered very minor tweaks.

Carl
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