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I've tested quite a few reading programs on Windows, Mac and Linux installs on my laptop. Some of them are indeed not that pleasant while others are very usable. For me, it depends more on how well the renderer handles CSS, the page change controls, etc. The only reason for not using my computer for most of my reading is that it is just a titch heavier and less portable than my ereader collection  . Have you ever tried holding a 17" screen laptop in one hand? It just doesn't work. |
I did start reading eBooks on an old Dell laptop. That was before the Sony Reader PRS-500 came out.
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Are you trying to tell us that you are unable to install a newer version of ADE on your computer even for testing purposes?
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I don't want to risk messing up my current ADE 2.0.1 setup. Besides, I call them broken if they don't work with the version of RMSDK on my Kobo. And given how very very simple the fix is, they will remain broken until those two useless media queries are deleted.
The real problem is that SE are using the ePub 3.2 spec and using all the overly complex features that are not all that backwards compatible. These eBooks do not have a complex format. They can work very well with very simple CSS/HTML code. There are still people using Sony Readers and depending on which model, the RMSDK can be even older then the RMSDK built into ADE 2.0.1. I don't call ADE 2.0.1 obsolete. It's very useful to check if an ePub 3 is properly backwards compatible with ePub 2. And obviously, SE eBooks are not and they refuse to make the simple fix.