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Originally Posted by GingerTez
is it worth the extra hassle to download the MS format and convert it (and what's the difference)?
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If Adobe DE on the PRS-505 had been implemented a little bit differently, then Secure Adobe PDFs would have been about as good at the LIT/LRF versions. As it is, ADE honours the page breaks at the end of each "page" in the PDF - so the text on each page reflows to the smaller screen but then there is a hard page break for no logical (content based) reason. The bothers some readers more than others. The other issue is that the Sony only allows 3 font sizes per book, and many of the PDFs were created years ago (so they could not be aware of the limitation) - which means that in some ebooks for some readers the font size they want won't be available.
MS LIT is the best of the older generation of true reflowable ebook formats (ePub is the new generation, but it is still in its infancy), with no extraneous hard page breaks. The Sony still has three font sizes, but Calibre allows you to set these. Also, DRM-free MS LIT is future proof. If you want to switch to a different ebook reader in the future, its is 100% certain that a LIT can be shifted into the format you need.