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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Which size for the books are you using on the reader ? Is A4 possible on the iLiad unlike the Sony Reader (it's possible but not really easy to read on this reader) ?
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I believe it's best to use 'real' sizes, as that corresponds closest to what letters actually will look like. Scaling makes pages look somewhat like early WYSIWYG samples -- fonts should not scale linearly, but optically.
Width = 29.1 pc, height = 35.4 pc seems to be fairly close.
But you don't really want to do iLiad and Sony formatting separately -- at least not if you are looking for quality results. You only get two books to proofread for bad hyphenations, widows, etc. I suspect it would be better to find a mean page size, and use that for both formats. (Better, that is, in the sense of least wasteful of time in proofing.)
After looking over the Doyle title:
You really want to keep page sizes down to something much closer to pocket book size. A4 is impossible to read, even if printed, if you let the page size dictate the line length. Even A5 can be pretty bad.
And try to avoid Type 3 fonts -- they contain no hinting, and are generally rather useless in low resolution. (I even suspect some T3 typefaces to be bitmapped fonts, barely covered by PostScript format -- and they work even worse.)