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Originally Posted by wallcraft
No. It does not read ePubs protected by AdobeID DRM and it does not support multiple fonts or document-specific fonts (although it does let you use any font loaded on your PC). See the attached screenshots of a test ePub for default fonts. It displays as expected using Sony eBook Library (which is using mobile ADE) but shows only one font and without the specified page breaks and other formatting in the B&N Reader. The actual ePub ebooks I have tried look OK in the B&N Reader, but it does not support all features of ePub.
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This is good to know, thanks. I actually downloaded and installed B&N's reading application after posting, but uninstalled it after 10 minutes. It's pretty horrible. It took me more that 5 minutes to even figure out how to load an epub book from disk. In general, it's pretty poorly designed. You can't use the arrow keys to change pages, or the PgUp/PgDn keys either. I couldn't find any way of keyboard navigation for books. That's just ridiculous. Do they expect users to mouse click the GUI arrow buttons for every page? The only thing worse would be if they actually
had some sort of keyboard navigation, but it's so unintuitive even power users can't find it.
And the epub books I loaded had all sorts of weird characters displayed, which display normally in ADE. It seems the B&N's reading system has even worse default Unicode character coverage than ADE, and I didn't think that was even possible. It also made it evident they rolled their own (crappy) engine.
The justification and font selection is pretty nice though. Hopefully other Reading Systems will pick up on it soon, it's pretty damn basic yet completely absent from every other commercial renderer.