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Originally Posted by Xiaopanda
Agreed! Epub looks great, but without a magifying glass, can be tough to read, and the step-up magification goes from Tiny to massive, totally unlike Mobi-pocket...and I am NOT re-formatting and changing fonts and whatever else.
Agreed, and this is why PRC is my preffered format, as well as being able to read these on a Kindle.
I like the EZ reader, and enjoy mobipocket prc files, but the others are pretty hit-and-miss IMO. Epub support need to be dramatically improved so the font size steps up reasonably and amybe being able to change font style, though that's not a deal-breaker.....
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I've been playing some more with the new firmware, and I found they've actually changed the PDF viewer more than I realized: it now reflows the text rather than simply trimming the whitespace in the margins. I liked the idea of just removing the margins; it usually worked pretty well if the PDF page size wasn't too big. But the reflow works pretty well too, at least on the half dozen books I've tested so far. One of the books wouldn't reflow properly at all -- words and lines were broken in random places. The others were much better, though some formatting is lost (e.g., justification and indented first lines), but italics, superscript, etc., all worked well.
For the EPUB files, I wonder if there's a way to tweak calibre when doing a conversion so that zoom level 1 results in a 'normal' text size? One of my books did come out with that result, but I can't remember what I did to get it!
Another issue I'm noticing with EPUB is that the EZ Reader leaves no margins at all -- so that even a shadow on the edge of the frame will cover text. Plus of course the silly page numbers also tend to overlap text. Weird.
I agree with you -- I like the EZ Reader, but I'm still kind of annoyed that I bought it because it claimed to support so many other file types, but in effect, I'm limited to PRC, EPUB, PDF and DJVU. Contrast that with the Sony Reader, which effectively supports LRF, EPUB, PDF, RTF and TXT, and has a more attractive appearance. To me, that means when I upgrade, I'm not likely to go back to Astak, or recommend it to anyone, unless they really need DJVU support, or want to try switching firmwares for some of the alternatives out there. My impression is that the company just isn't candid about its product.