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Old 06-21-2010, 10:13 AM   #16
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Txtr uses a scrolling rather than page turning metaphor and their website is slow and obtuse for getting materials. It's a terrible reading experience. Who cares if it handles fonts in some esoteric easy better

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I find the website to be just fine. It's not slow at all. There really is no big difference to a scrolling page turn vs some other page turn. The reason txtr is good is because it DOES handle things (such as embedded fonts) better then any other app on the iPhone.
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The fact is txtr is the only way to read drm'ed epubs on an iPod touch. Unless you strip the drm.

Plus Stanza's rendering engine is pretty terrible, it won't even centre my chapter headings properly, every other epub reader copes with this very simple thing fine.

Whatever the drawbacks of txtr (and yes as an app it's far from ideal) it's the only app out there that uses ADE as it's rendering engine. So at the very least epubs look like they are supposed to. Even if that means zero cutomisation.
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There really is no big difference to a scrolling page turn
There's a huge difference. Reading and just pressing one side of the screen or the other to go to the next page -- that's like reading a book. Scrolling is a PIA and like reading a website.

If one is reading novels -- the esoteric epub formatting quibbles you have are meaningless. But EVERY book you have to scroll through is just aweful.

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Reading and just pressing one side of the screen or the other to go to the next page -- that's like reading a book. Scrolling is a PIA and like reading a website.
txtr supports reading & just pressing the left/right side of the screen.
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