Will iPad as ereader work for me?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Rique

That has not been my experience so far with my wife's iPad - which has 25 epubs on it now. I do admit that is a small sample size...

-- Riq

Give Neptune Crossing a look using ADE and then give it a look using iBooks and you'll see that with ADE, how it should look.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36707

[Rique]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Give Neptune Crossing a look using ADE and then give it a look using iBooks and you'll see that with ADE, how it should look.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36707

Jon, thanks, I will take a look!

-- Riq

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Rique

Jon, thanks, I will take a look!

-- Riq

So how does Neptune Crossing look on the iPad? It should look like the following ... https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...503#post883503

[Rique]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So how does Neptune Crossing look on the iPad? It should look like the following ... https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...503#post883503

Hi Jon,

I tried today and it did not parse well at all. Some pages were completely blank. I expect it barfed on the embedded font. I'm going to do a little more research to see if (and how) I can get it to at least be readable on the iPad (using iBooks or whatever app can work).

As of now, I concede your point - iBooks definitely did not play well with the Neptune's Crossing (and I assume it is because of the embedded fonts).

-- Riq

[thibaulthalpern]

But iBooks is not the only eReader out there for iPad now, surely. Right?

[Rique]

Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern

But iBooks is not the only eReader out there for iPad now, surely. Right?

Right. But for DRM-scrubbed epubs, it is the eReader that my wife uses. She also uses the Amazon Kindle app, but that is definitely not applicable for her scrubbed epubs. She hasn't tried any others yet, however she will be installing Good Reader this weekend for PDFs.

If anyone can recommend an epub eReader that can handle epubs with embedded fonts, that would be terrific. I expect at this point, we will have to wait for an app or find a way to parse epubs with embedded fonts before we put them on her iPad.

As I said earlier, so far this is a non-issue with my wife - all of her scrubbed epubs are just fine.

Having said that, Jon has provided a good example of a shortcoming I'd love to learn of a solution for.

-- Riq