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Old 07-04-2010, 04:21 PM   #7
JDługosz
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Originally Posted by zaqwsx170 View Post
Hey guys. I'm having a bit of trouble reading math and science textbooks on my nook. They're all completely OCR'd, but I think the problem is that many of the characters used don't work well with the nook.

What can I do?
Use Calibre to "convert" (even if it's already a epub) and put stuff in the "additional CSS" to make it use the system fonts, not the crippled embedded fonts that are part of the reader app. See this link.

Now does anyone know why they use built-in fonts (only) for the reader app, when the system fonts are soooo much better? Seems like a waste of memory at the very least. My impression is that the platform outclasses the apps shipped on it.

--John
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