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Originally Posted by DixieGal
How do you feel about it today, now that it is charged up?
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I'm still getting used to it, but I'm beginning to see more positives. I realized yesterday that my initial negative reaction stemmed mostly from the learning curve that comes with any new device. I haven't yet gotten so far as to replace the default font (I'll probably change it to Georgia), but I was looking at how the device handles different formats, and got mixed results. The best by far was a really lovely edition of the Father Brown stories in MOBI format, downloaded from this site (thanks to whoever posted it!), which seems to have an embedded font. It looks absolutely terrific on the EZ Reader -- even better than a book I'm currently reading in the same font and basic layout on the Sony Reader.
A big problem I haven't had a chance to really address yet is that the EZ Reader will not appear on my Vista laptop at home when I plug in the USB cable, but it appears with no problem on my XP computer at work. With the Vista system, nothing at all happens on either the EZ Reader or the laptop when I connect the cable. I'm wondering if maybe I told it by default to "do nothing" when I connect. But we'll see.
The EZ Reader doesn't handle certain file types very well, it appears. It reboots when I load a DJVU file and hit the zoom button. And for any file (unless I'm missing something), there are only three zoom levels: small, medium, and landscape. The Sony Reader has small, medium, large and landscape for most file types.
I just noticed this morning that the EZ Reader does odd things with an RTF file: all hyphens are deleted, and punctuation at the end of a line often appears at the start of the next line
. <-- Like that.
But I have to play around with it some more to see if these things can be fixed.