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Originally Posted by Scoob
Well it's never a bad idea to learn how to successfully embed fonts and I've put that off for a while at this point. I've tried it once and didn't succeed but I also didn't need to succeed. As for format and layout and the like I don't mind that at all. Even not having hyphens isn't as much a issue as I thought it would be.
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I like dark fonts so I embed Constantia into my ePubs (via Calibre). Something I learned from JSWolf (despite his disdain for Sony readers) is that with the x50 and T series readers, you can adjust screen brightness and contrast. He told me that a good setting is contrast set to 60 and the brightness set to -60. (Hit the Options button, go to Custom View and then Custom and you'll see the two sliders, top is contrast and the bottom is brightness.) This is done book by book, but it's usually the first thing I do when I move a new book over to the Sonys.
Another thing not mentioned much about the old (x50 and T series) Sonys is the good quality dictionaries built into them. The New Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of English (which sometimes has words the American dictionary doesn't have), and the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (EN-FR and FR-EN), the Collins English-German and German-English dictionaries. The Oxford Spanish Dictionaries (EN-ES, ES-EN). The Collins English-Italian and Italian-English dictionaries and the Van Dale English-Dutch and Dutch-English dictionaries.
I remember seeing the Sony readers in Target. And, I think, I remember the x50 series ones selling their for about $350 (but my memory may not be accurate). This could be why they died out. My first Sony was a refurbished PRS-T2 I bought at the old Tiger Direct store for about $60.