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Font Face: ePub makes it very easy to embed whatever font you want so that really does give you more choices. ]Font Sizes: On the 505, font sizes are based on some size difference from the current size. I do feel that that should be made to be a specific font size instead. Because given the way that ePub do have different sizes to start with, changing the size gives differing results. Margins: On the 505, Margins are based on what the book specifies. Justified vs. non-justified: I would like to have ADE on the 505 support justified text even if just so we can get all the "I like LRF better because it's justified" people away from LRF. I' would not mind ADE being justified and given that you now know a lot more about digging into an ePub, you'd be able to change the justification to left quite easily I'd think. Bookmarking: I do think the Sony has done bookmarking quite well. Page Turn buttons: I do think this is a person preference and having had a 500 and now a 505, I do prefer the setup of the 505. But, one thing I would like is the page turn buttons on the right to be up a little higher. And if the same buttons were on the left, it would be easier for left handed people. On the k2, it is nice that there are page turn buttons on both sides.The only thing I would change is the home button on the right would be the page previous button. And the buttons are larger on the K2 and I can easily see how some may find that easier. Pages vs Locations & Percentages: Now the chapter dots are nice. That's one thing I would really like on the 505 is to see how close I am to the end of a chapter. But, also coming from pBooks, I do like having actual page numbers. It helps in knowing how far along I am and how far I have to go. Organization: One thing you can do with collections that you cannot do with folders is to have the same books listed in multiple collections without having to have the same book multiple times. Given how many people have been asking for folders on the K2, I am surprised that Amazon has not add folders. Search: K2 hands down since the 505 doesn't have search. Navigation: This I don't really know about as I've not used a K2 other then a quick demo at the Boston Book Fair where eink had one on display. For the 505 to get back to the collections menu from inside a book takes either 3 button presses or 2 button presses. 3 presses: 1 back to the books' menu, 2. back to that book's collection menu, 3. back to the collection menu. For the 2 presses, 1. press and hold the menu button and back to the main menu, 2. press 5 to go to the collection menu. The good thing with ePub is that when you do finally decide on a larger screen reader someday, chances are, that your ePub formatted eBooks will be able to be used with this new reader without having to convert. Newer Mobipocket/AZW eBooks convert fairly easy. But some older Mobipocket/AZW eBooks can be a mess. And you do have to know something of HTML & CSS to clean up the results. |
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Is there a way to have full justification in epubs by modifying the style.css? I looked at that css tutorial site daffy4u mentioned and it said {text-align:justify} is the proper code. Where would I put that and would it make all the epubs justified? I already have the style.css on the reader for the fontin.ttf hack.
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Is it actually a dot for each chapter on the kindle? I never noticed a 1:1 correlation with the dots. I just think of it as a progress bar.
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Yes, it's one dot per chapter. Or rather, to be strictly correct, it's one dot per particular item of Mobi "markup" in the book, and it's normal to use it at chapter starts.
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@page {margin : 15%;} or @page {margin : 20px;} defining a global "margin" as i did above sets the same margin on all 4 sides. you can refine this with a different margin for top/bottom vs. sides by specifying two measures : @page {margin : 20px 10%;} = 20px for top and bottom, 10% for right and left. or specify a different margin for each side like jon did in his example. |
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How do I translate pt to px? Calibre's default configured with 5.0 pt all the way around (72 pts = 1 inch). I could use a bit more but I don't understand px.
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however, you can probably just pretend that pixels are about the same as points, and that will give you a good mental jumping off point. or you can use pts, but since pts is originally a unit of measurement made for print (paper), i'm not sure it's the most relevant one to use for ebooks, and actually i'm not really sure how acurately it translates into a digital display. you might want to just play around a bit with different sizes to find what you like. you can try using percentage, too ; that might be easier to visualise. Last edited by zelda_pinwheel; 01-20-2010 at 04:46 PM. |
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i'm only talking about margins, here ; em is an excellent choice (the best choice, in fact, in my opinion) for indent size, for exactly the same reason it's a poor choice for margins. |
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Why do you think em is good for an indent instead of a fixed measurement? |
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Because the indent should be relevant to the font size I suppose, but the margin shouldn't...
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size 1 ...i'm using 3 points (about the width of the letter m, so 1em) to simulate a proportional indent here, to show what i mean. the points will get larger when i increase the font size. (however, the forum software won't automatically increase the line spacing. so at size 1 this text will be small but pretty readable, whereas at size 6 it will be really difficult.) size 6 ...i'm using 3 points to simulate a proportional indent here, to show what i mean. the points will get larger when i increase the font size. however, the forum software won't automatically increase the line spacing. so at size 1 this text will be small but pretty readable, whereas at size 6 it will be really difficult. small indent : .here i've decreased the indent to one point, which is less than 1em but probably close to the width of 3 points at size small. you can see the indent is not as visible. edit : actually, 1 point at size 6 is still larger than 3 points at size 1, so my demonstration is not as effective as it could be. but i think you can still get the idea of what i meant. Last edited by zelda_pinwheel; 01-23-2010 at 05:49 PM. |
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