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Originally Posted by AJW
Here are some shots of a formatted FB2 book and the font layout menu
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After I took these shots I noticed the ghosting of the menu on the page. This goes after you turn the page the first time after being back in the book from the Menu. The shots make it look more intrusive than it is due to the flash.
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Thanks so much for that! I really like the layout. It seems to me that on the Cool-ER like on the BeBook, FB2 is displayed much better than ePub.
I don't know if it's the way ePubs are currently being formatted, if the rendering engines are still too immature (and will improve in time, I sincerely hope) or whether it is inherent in the ePub standard itself. FB2 describes the book structure, and allows maximum flexibility for the user to adjust how the document "looks," within the limits of the reading software. ePub "seems" to be more rigid, but it could juct be the current way the standard is being (poorly) used and the current reader engines. I have read a lot of the ePub threads and quite frankly am no closer to unerstanding the intricacies of the problem.
Tell me, can you also load user-defined fonts onto the device to have more choices? Not that the choices you have are bad, but a few more might be nice, or if a user has a particular favourite font. I'm hoping there's a simple solution like on the BeBook, where you can load your own fonts into a /fonts folder at the root level of your memory, and there is also the possibility to load your own fb2.css file into a /crengine folder (uses CoolReader for FB2 and RTF). I'm not sure what Cool-ER uses - but I like the display and am seriously thinking of getting one!
I can't remember if you said this or not, but have you done the firmwar update, and has it provided noticeable improvement or not?
Thanks again.
