For the most part, the people who make books here at MobileRead pride themselves on the extra attention they pay to the way the books render on the various devices. I've had very good experience with books from Baen and Feedbooks.
Baen offers books in the Sony BBeB (.lrf) format as well as others. I've heard that some of the Baen books made a couple of years ago are not as nicely presented as their more recent productions. I've not taken the time to compare them.
At Feedbooks, for the Sony, you have a choice of PDF (generated specifically for the Sony's screen size) or ePub. Hadrien at Feedbooks uses a process based on starting from HTML markup and then generating the various formats from the HTML. His goal is to use well-coded HTML that will render well in all formats.
I believe that Munseys and Manybooks use a more automated process. The result is quite readable, but may lack some of the typographic features that would be present in an *excellent* rendition.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
I have a Mac so I am not using Sony software
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So use the viewer in Calibre. The .lrf viewer is excellent and looks just like the screen of the Sony. I haven't updated my Sony firmware to support ePub, so I don't know how the ePub viewer compares with the appearance on the Sony reader itself. But, since the Mobipocket viewer in Calibre looks a whole lot like the ePub viewer, I'm a bit suspicious. Mobipocket output looks a *lot* better in the Mobipocket Reader (Windows only) or on the Kindle than it does in the Mobipocket viewer in Calibre.