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Old 03-01-2012, 08:05 AM   #76
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:06 AM   #77
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Look at 11/22/63 and you'll see it has a whole host of embedded fonts. I'm guessing they are the same ones used in the hardcover.
Interesting! Did you buy 11/22/63 from B&N? Do different characters use different fonts or something? Do you know what fonts they are? 11/22/63 is never going to be a library ebook and I'm probably never going to buy the ebook (I am curious to read it, but I I don't pay that much for ebooks!)

I have only seen Charis SIL embedded in Overdrive epubs. (And Overdrive epubs can be formatted differently from the ones you buy.) I'm guessing part of it is the license, Charis SIL has a very liberal license so you can use it pretty much anywhere for free. If you embed a commercial font you have to pay for the font usage. I have seen "really special formatting" like words overlapping in the book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and they just did it as an image.

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I always remove the fonts unless there's a really good reason not to.
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:35 AM   #79
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Is that a Who reference?
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Dr. Who? Gallifreyan is a very special font.

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Dr. Who? Gallifreyan is a very special font.

No, The Who. The band.

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The sun shines
And people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides
And people forget
Forget they're hiding
The girls smile
And people forget
The snow packs as the skier tracks
And people forget
Forget they're hiding.

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front - It's a put on.
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I always remove the fonts unless there's a really good reason not to.
I find pretty much any font to be better than Sony's default font. Anyway, I would always look at how the book looks on my reader before replacing the font or settings.

But seriously, is it really common to buy a book with an embedded font? Where are you guys getting these books from?

(and here I was worried that this thread is going off-topic... well at least embedded fonts is not NEARLY as off-topic as Dr Who/The Who!

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Hmmm, look at that. Must be a co-inkidink.
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I find pretty much any font to be better than Sony's default font. Anyway, I would always look at how the book looks on my reader before replacing the font or settings.

But seriously, is it really common to buy a book with an embedded font? Where are you guys getting these books from?

(and here I was worried that this thread is going off-topic... well at least embedded fonts is not NEARLY as off-topic as Dr Who/The Who!

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I have Sony PRS+ with my own fonts installed.

And, yes, about half of the books I buy come embedded with Charis.
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Dr. Who? Gallifreyan is a very special font.

Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning wheel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
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No, Who's on first

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But seriously, is it really common to buy a book with an embedded font? Where are you guys getting these books from?

(and here I was worried that

It's not *uncomon*.
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Interesting! Did you buy 11/22/63 from B&N? Do different characters use different fonts or something? Do you know what fonts they are? 11/22/63 is never going to be a library ebook and I'm probably never going to buy the ebook (I am curious to read it, but I I don't pay that much for ebooks!)
Here's a good example of the embedded fonts in 11/22/63. There's also a different font for the chapter headings, but I like this example because it shows how he made "SILVER CERTIFICATE" actually look like the font on a US bank note.
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Well, whenever the ebooks come out...I think it's great Rowling and/or biz manager are working with Overdrive and they deserve kudos. This is great news for library users. I've watched all the movies but never read the books. I've come around to being interested in reading them but preferably in eformat as I don't want to borrow the huge hardcover versions and paperback fonts are too difficult for me.
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I'm glad someone still sees values in libraries, something other than lost sales.
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