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Old 10-08-2009, 04:37 PM   #5
Elfwreck
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Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
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Originally Posted by fulanito_uk View Post
a sample of the PDF i want to use with the device..

http://www.f-16.net/downloads_file11.html
Just to check, I put it on my Sony PRS-505.

It's a locked PDF, with correct title/author metadata (yay! So it shows up in the listing as "Battlefield Options: Falcon 4.0..." rather than "F4.0AF.QXD_Fin" or something useless like that), but it's not tagged. However, it seems that in this case, that's okay.

I could read this on the PRS-505; I've read similarly formatted books. (But it's painful, and I'd have to really LOVE what I was reading.) The text is tiny. When I reflow it, it's much more readable, although the formatting is a touch odd. (Not bad, though, because it's very linear. It's just that page headers & footers can wind up on the wrong end of the page.) The section headers become uncomfortably large with the M & L reflow options.

I would read this on the M setting; I suspect that most people would prefer it on the L setting, and just cope with the annoyingly large section headers.

This particular kind of PDF works fine on the PRS-505--but another one, that looked almost identical to the casual reader, might not. It depends on what program it was made in, and what conversion settings were used.

The PRS would work for this, but I wouldn't recommend getting an ebook reader specifically to read this, unless the person (1) checked out one in person first, to make sure the small problems weren't annoying to him, and (2) knew he'd be reading several dozen books formatted exactly the same way.
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