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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
New features are nice, but not the main point. Just make sure your device have the features you need when you buy it, that's all.
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The situation with Sony is a bit different. When many of us bought our PRS-505s, LRF was the main format supplied by Sony from their online book store. So we would have been buying based on how well the PRS-505 displays LRFs. Now Sony do not sell LRFs, because they have switched over to EPub. I have nothing against EPub, it is a good format; but I do have a problem with Sony, because the PRS-505 rendering of EPubs is not great, e.g.,
No full justification
Small page numbers in right hand margin (who ever thought that was a good idea!)
The page numbering is generally confusing.
By no longer supporting LRF, Sony has effectively disabled some features in their existing devices that we own (e.g., they have removed the ability to display in fully justified text an ebook that has been newly purchased from their own web-site). Fortunately this could be easily fixed by a firmware update, if only Sony would just pause a bit from releasing new devices and get on the case. How difficult can it be?