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Old 05-15-2009, 03:32 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by astra View Post
I believe the last Sony Reader f/w update was a gaffe.

- PDF reflow that garbles the text?
- ePub with page numbers all over the screen
- ePub left hand justification
- ePub vert slow TOC access
- ePub very slow font size change?

Why bother? Why smear their name with such blunders? I used to say that the strongest point of Sony Reader vs. any other reader is that it just works. No bugs, no issues. The reader does just what Sony promised it should do.

However, after the last f/w update I cannot say it anymore. They added half-done things and made the reader worse instead of bettering it. Pity.
Just to respond to your points:

I don't do PDFs, so I don't know about the first one
The page numbers are not 'all over the screen'. They're small and only one per screen, if that.
I've never really understood why anyone would demand right-hand justification, but if that's a negative for you, I'll let it go.
Haven't noticed that TOC access is slower than access to any other menu option.
The font change in epub is faster than in lrf, because the device doesn't have to reformat the *entire* book to do a font change. That's the advantage of having static page numbers that don't change when you change font size.

I only got my 505 a month ago, so I can't judge whether it's 'worse' or not, but it seems to me to be just fine, and I *always* get my books in epub when they're available that way. It's a far superior format to lrf, IMHO.
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