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Originally Posted by barryhf
I've posted my thoughts on the formatting problems for Adobe eBooks viewed on the PRS-505. I've had the device for a week and wouldn't recommend it for viewing content downloaded from the library. Single-line quotes, pagination and hyphens are my complaints.
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This is a nice summary of the problems with PDF ebooks on the PRS-505, but note that this is not ePub. The Adobe Digital Editions software (Desktop or on the Sony) reads both PDF and ePub but they are not the same thing. EPub is the very latest industry standard reflowable ebook format, which does not have the problems you describe. There are as yet relatively few Secure Adobe ePubs, and although I think OverDrive has announced lending library ePubs I have never seen one. Lending library Adobe ebooks are generally Secure Adobe PDFs.
I had not seen the hyphenation problem described before. It can also occur with genuinely reflowable ebooks if the transfer from the original text did not take out the hard hyphens at the end of lines (i.e. if the transfer was done poorly). There will be a small number of cases where the hyphen should remain, but I agree that Adobe Digital Editions should remove all of the end-of-line hypens rather than leaving them all.