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Please try a .DOC format as well as a .TXT format if you own an iRiver Story and see if they look fine. They're unusable for me on my Story.

This is a summary of the issues I have with iRiver Story (firmware v1.71):

*1) With .DOC, you get very tiny text even at the largest zoom level. And the text is cut off at left/right margin at the highest zoom level. It is as if DOC files are treated as images. The DOC text doesn't reflow.

*2) With .TXT, the Story doesn't do word-wraps. Words are brutally broken up at the end of the lines.

3) With .JPG, you can't zoom, you can't rotate. This seems like a bad restriction when you try to read comic books. You need to squint very hard to read the words. One of the selling points that iRiver has been trying to make is its ability to read comics. I wonder about that. Comic books are rarely 6" in size.

4) With .EPUB, the font 'ink' is uneven. You get darker, thinner vertical strokes of letters such as "I", "h". Strangely this unevenness is not evident with .txt files.

5) With .PDF, in landscape, zoom is unavailable.

6) iRiver does not remember your zoom level if you read from the SD card.

* Major issues