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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
The best ereader apps (regarding as how they display an epub) are:
1) Reasily
2) Gitden
3) PocketBook
4) Lithium
5) Overdrive
The difference between 1-3 are tiny; I use mainly PocketBook because it has features not present in Reasily or Gitden (for example, Reasily doesn't have TTS nor hyphens). But the support for css3 in ereaders 1-3 is very good (to my surprise, they even support calc and custom variables).
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Instead of buying an EPUB reader, I invested a long time ago in a smart-phone and tablet with the free GitDen EPUB reader. If you want to know your EPUB reader can or can't, if you have an EPUB reader with JavaScript you can use the attached EPUBtestHTML.epub to see what your E-reader can and can't.
Back to the question of this post, it is clear that the manufacturers of E-readers are not in much haste to update their equipment with recent and less bugged software.
Considering the foregoing, the question remains, what can we recommend rsuchwani?
I think there is no good, but unfortunately only the least bad solution. Actually, we can't find any real flaws in rsuchwani EPUB.
Today, almost everyone has a smartphone in their pocket. I would therefore opt for a mobile first approach with a re-flowable layout and a larger font. In addition to validating the EPUB, I would test it via a good EPUB app on a smartphone or tablet. For those who are fond of a book layout, I would print the EPUB to a PDF format with the current font size.
I think the latter, printing to PDF, is the crux of the problem. When I added an EPUB extension in both Chrome and Firefox, rsuchwani EPUB was not showing properly. I missed pieces of text, or the text didn't stick to the bottom margin.
If I print a page to PDF from Sigil with the Microsoft print to PDF printer, it works flawlessly. The disadvantage is of course that you have to print and merge each page separately.
The question remains for rsuchwani how was the PDF created, and how did you see the errors in the EPUB?