PRS-900 Problem with 1st line on a page cut off?

[Marcy]

On the book I'm currently reading, every few pages the first line of the page is cut off, essentially making the book unreadable.

The text is there -- if I change the font size down to the practically unreadable XS I can see the sentence. I then change it back to S so I can see the text without stress.

It is a book I bought as an DRM'd mobi, then de-DRM'd and used Calibre to convert to epub. I wound up going back to Calibre and converting the original mobi to lrf and the book now reads fine. However I was wondering if anyone would know why that happened and how I can avoid it in the future.

-Marcy

[SCION]

That's interesting. I always convert to LRF.

[Kolenka]

CSS placement in epub is a tricky game. If you have weird formatting in the output, ePub won't stop you from doing things like positioning text out of frame with malformed CSS.

[Marcy]

Originally Posted by SCION

That's interesting. I always convert to LRF.

I used to, but don't want to be stuck with all my books in what will eventually be an archaic format. I'm assuming there will come a time when new Sony readers don't support it anymore.

However, for this book, it turned out to be a lifesaver.

-Marcy

[SCION]

Originally Posted by Marcy

I used to, but don't want to be stuck with all my books in what will eventually be an archaic format. I'm assuming there will come a time when new Sony readers don't support it anymore.

However, for this book, it turned out to be a lifesaver.

-Marcy

You'll never be stuck with calibre. I keep my original mobi files. I use LRF because it allows headers and the font appears to be darker and bigger.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by SCION

You'll never be stuck with calibre. I keep my original mobi files. I use LRF because it allows headers and the font appears to be darker and bigger.

I've gone to all Epub too but I do miss the headers. It is a very nice feature of lrf.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Marcy

On the book I'm currently reading, every few pages the first line of the page is cut off, essentially making the book unreadable.

The text is there -- if I change the font size down to the practically unreadable XS I can see the sentence. I then change it back to S so I can see the text without stress.

It is a book I bought as an DRM'd mobi, then de-DRM'd and used Calibre to convert to epub. I wound up going back to Calibre and converting the original mobi to lrf and the book now reads fine. However I was wondering if anyone would know why that happened and how I can avoid it in the future.

-Marcy

I've had this happen where a quarter of the page was off the screen. I used the debug setting in Calibre, pointed it to a directory then examined the html. In my case it was something block ... ~ I don't remember but I was able to junk most of the BS in the file via notepad++ and then I was fine.

You could try and convert the LRF to epub.

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by Marcy

I used to, but don't want to be stuck with all my books in what will eventually be an archaic format. I'm assuming there will come a time when new Sony readers don't support it anymore.

However, for this book, it turned out to be a lifesaver.

-Marcy

Same here. I love LRF and like ePub but I realize that I need to embrace ePub for the same reason!