[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by ngrant

Ditto those thoughts, Solitaire1. My jetBook Lite only offers Verdana and Arial, no serif fonts. I have become used to that, and in fact use Verdana as my default font on JBL as well as my computer as it scales nicely from small to extra large. I anticipate that firmware upgrades will take care of that problem in the future. I could, having edited my RTF or HTML file in Word and chosen a nice serif font, save it as a PDF formatted for the small screen, but I am lazy!!

The convenience factor of the JBL reader is probably the most important aspect to me and I am willing to live with its shortcomings, and look forward to many improvements through firmware upgrades. The low cost doesn't hurt either!

I don't mind the extra work involved with saving my ebooks as PDFs, and the format control is worth the extra effort. Plus, once formatted its little work to adjust it to a different screen size if that becomes necessary (basically just change the page size and save it as a PDF). Its main disadvantages are file size and rigid format (as formatted it's fine at my reader's default small size but doesn't look as good at a larger font size).

Of all of the available ebook formats, I think RTF is one of the best. It's close to plain text as far as file size goes (since it's actually a plain text format), and it offers format control not available with plain text (and it doesn't have the paragraph spacing limitation that basic HTML has).