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Originally Posted by daveo
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I try to use ePub on my PP, I get very distracting page numbers in the text on the right side of the screen, often covering up text in the book. Any ideas? I love ePub and would like to use the format but it's too ugly to use.
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That page number is provided by the Adobe Digital Editions in the current firmware and can not be turned off AFAIK. ADE really needs to be much more configurable, but any improvements seem to have been a long time in coming so far.
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Originally Posted by daveo
Right now I'm using FB2 for smaller books (love it but really seems to struggle with larger files - freezes up loading the book or if it does load it, takes several seconds for a page turn while the green light chugs away)
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The problem there is that FB2 is a monolithic ebook format and the entire book needs to be loaded into RAM to read. RAM is a limited commodity in the PocketPRO, so very large files can be a problem. However, the latest version of CoolReader (the FB2 reader) has been updated to use a cache, something like the swap file in Windows, so that it can handle large FB2 files much more easily. That CoolReader improvement is not available from the factory or Astak yet, but if you want to try it, it is available in the 22 June 2010 release of the Lbook firmware for the PocketPRO. That Lbook firmware is linked to in other posts in this forum.
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Originally Posted by daveo
or mobi, which actually looks good but doesn't accurately display page numbers.
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Since electronic books can have their font size and line spacing etc. etc. varied by the user there is really no such thing as "accurate" page numbers anyway. The bad thing about MOBI is that it is a closed proprietary format belonging to Amazon, so there will probably not be much more in the way of MOBI innovation in non-Amazon readers?