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Originally Posted by Antonio
I love everything about Feedbooks, except that the text appears, at least to me on my reader, to be significantly lighter than other formats.
I have been reading novels from feedbooks, and uploaded a few that I wanted to read because the experience of the chapter headings, small margins and flowing is so nice. Then I downloaded a long article off the web into word, saved it as a rtf file, and put it on my reader.
When I opened it and started reading, I was surprised at how much darker the text was, and at how much of a difference this makes in different lighting situations. The fact that I can't increase the font size on the fly for feedbook books makes it even more of an issue, since if you could simply increase the font size in low lighting, the fainter text might not be as big a deal.
In any case, I am sad to say that I have actually gone to PG and downloaded the html of the novel I was in the middle of, and saved it as an rtf. I do sorely miss the beautiful formatting of the feedbooks version, but feel that the overall experience ends up being better with the easier to read dark text. Particularly for my quickly atrophying 40 year old eyes.
So, for a book that I really want to savor, I probably will want to do some more formatting, and if I were to put in that time, it would be great to have a place to share the fruits of those labors. And, of course, a place to check first whether someone else has done the work already...
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Well, using fonts that are "bolder" is possible. I still have to make some sort of poll to define the template for both Sony and iLiad. I've been busy adding all sorts of features lately (added some sort of recommandation today, like what Amazon does, based on what people download), but I'll make a real poll about this quite soon.
And it's also quite easy to create custom pdf, you just set the settings once and afterwards you just have to hit the custom PDF button.
On the old books that are still in cache, the font was Times, which looks fine on an iLiad but pretty faint on the Sony reader. But we switched to Bookman afterwards. Once we'll have the results of the polls about those template, I'll delete the whole cache, this way the books will all have the same template.