Thread: Would like an E-reader - but complicating factors
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Old 08-31-2009, 02:26 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by DrMoze View Post
Huh? I'm reading an ADE book (borrowed from the NYPL) right now on my 300 Reader (and my 505 as well) that has nice full justification, at all font sizes. C'mon Harry. We know you like to tout your favorite devices (was Cybook, now appears to be Opus), but this is blatant misinformation. Have you ever actually used a Sony Reader yourself to read a book?
I don't have a PRS-505 or an Opus, but Harry is undoubtedly correct that Bookeen's ePub implementation is the best currently available. All vendors are getting the same SDK from Adobe, but which parts of it they implement and how it is integrated into their device is up to them. Sony started out with an old version of the SDK on the PRS-505 and 700, and so far as I can tell have not upgraded it at all for the PRS-300 and 600. So they have unfixed bugs and lack features for ePub that all newer implementations of mobile ADE include. Of the new implementations, Bookeen's is the cleanest and most full featured for ePubs. I expect the Netronix and Hanlin versions to improve over time, via firmware upgrades, but Sony is stuck with ADE's ePub rendering from 2008 essentially forever.

Your ADE ebook from the NYPL is a PDF. I have not detected any difference in PDF reflow between the Sony ADE and the more recent mobile ADE implementations. So in this area Sony is up to date. Bookeen does not use ADE reflow for PDFs at all, but rather zooms the PDF. My preference would be for all 6" devices to implement both zoom and reflow for PDFs.
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