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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well yeah. I'm sure it could be annoying or even "unreadable" - but just my experience is that I've not had epub issues, but have definitely had pdf issues - enough so that it was annoying enough for me to dump it and buy the paper book.  |
Oh I certainly wouldn't
buy PDFs unless they were done in the right size range with competent formatting. Even the ePubs that are available could be improved significantly, and I'm often reluctant to pay paper book prices for ebooks that look like they were made by an untrained and untalented child.
I just got that free copy of Pratchett's
Unseen Academicals as an ePub and the first thing I did was remove the big margins (which weren't set in the CSS but in a page-template.xpgt file), which did make it much more manageable...though if I'm going to dig through the CSS to reformat to make it a little more pleasant, I may as well go a bit further and give myself a PDF I like with actual footnotes instead of linked endnote-style files, and proper justification and hyphenation, and no silly margin page numbers, along with nicer fonts and a bit better kerning (not that it's such a huge deal on these screens...)
If ePub were more competently displayed and executed on the Sony Readers, I'm sure I would tolerate them much better and wouldn't avoid them completely as I do now. I'd still make better PDFs of my favorites, but I wouldn't be nearly so offended by normal store offerings.
