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Old 10-15-2008, 12:58 PM   #12
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One workaround on the Sony for the crap synthesized italics is to include the italic font in the book. Page turn speed is largely unaffected (presumably because each page displays very few italicized words) and it looks much nicer.

It does bloat the size of each book by one or two megs though.
Maybe it's just me, but that's completely unacceptable. An average book is 400KB. Turning that into 2.5MB... no way.

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Also, if you use epub instead of lrf, it looks as though you can specify the font you want in CSS and point to a URL on the Reader itself instead of embedding the font (this way you can have one set of fonts for many books instead of embedding the font separately in each book). Look the the thread here on Mobileread.
I've seen the thread, and I agree, it's an amazing feature. It's just one more reason to switch to epub completely when we get editor support for it (on which I'll probably work on myself).
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