09-28-2013, 04:40 PM | #631 | |
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I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It highlights for my review Mistakes I cannot sea. I ran this poem thru it I'm sure your pleased to no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My checker told me sew. David |
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My suggestion (which was intended to be tactful) was that perhaps the poster was talking about the OCR layer of a scanned pdf and not reflowing the pdf text itself. One of the main reasons publishers like using pdfs is because they can restrict users' access to features like text reflow and selectability. Technically, a pdf creator can set the preferences to allow the user to reflow text, but in practice, most publishers want you simply to increase the size of the document view, which tends not to be practical on an e-ink reader with a relatively small screen. Quote:
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09-29-2013, 09:47 PM | #633 | |
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@Prestidigitweeze
I am afraid I am as guilty as Rizla in misinterpreting this paragraph. The PDFs I use on my reader, admittedly few, don't actually have any scanned text to switch to. I have scanned quite a few books, not perfectly I admit, but I do delete the scanned image portion eventually. My understanding is that most publishers do this as well. Shows what I know perhaps Quote:
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Rizla didn't misinterpret, so far as I know. My sense is that ectoplasm might have, though. Since I don't like reading pdfs on e-readers, the majority that I own are of books which are unavailable in any other format. Most are scans available on public sites, and most retain the OCR text. The scanned text level tends to be so error-ridden as to be completely unreadable. The other pdfs I own are completely unaffected by increment-decrement font settings. You can adjust the overall size of the pdf, but you certainly can't reflow the text. The Smoking Book, by Leslie Stern (U. of Chicago Press) is a case in point: It is a commercial book and you can't change the size of the font with the PRS-350. This is also true of the pdf edition of the magazine I co-edit, which is why I never attempt to read it on e-ink e-readers. A different kind of example is The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), available from archive.org. The pdf itself contains the correct text (since its pages are a series of photos of the physical book's pages). Using the increment-decrement buttons on the 350 brings up the scanned text, which has no pdf layout at all and can be reflowed easily, but which is unreadably error-laden. It's possible that Rizla has an extensive library of pdfs which have fully accessible text and were designed to be reflowed. I, however do not and therefore have no empirical knowledge of any pdf font size feature. Literally every pdf I've tried has not allowed font resizing. The possibility that Rizla has used his 350 to read a kind of pdf which I have not is suggested by this quote: Quote:
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09-30-2013, 07:39 AM | #635 | |
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09-30-2013, 09:36 PM | #636 |
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You coming to join us again, Helen? Will you have as much "free" time? I don't want to lose your words of wisdom.
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10-10-2013, 10:00 AM | #637 |
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Bought this $10 cover, and am pleased (took 10 days to arrive):
http://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Folio.../dp/B00DDMN73E Really, really, really like the sleep/wake up cover option... Now I never have to dig for the non-protruding power switch... And I can just collapse in bed without having to worry about shutting it down. Reflow of PDFs is a non-issue for me. While Sonys do reflow the PDF page breaks are still intact, so some pages on the ereader will only have a few lines... I found it so annoying on the first few PDFs I tried it on I never did it again. Either accept the PDF as it is [after cropping] (complex formatting or graphics), or convert the text to something readable (epub). Best ereader I've ever owned! ... My sole complaint is the big "Page XXX of YYY" on the bottom that never disappears. However, I know that the patcher can fix this if I spend more time on figuring it out... Reading text now, so it's not a big deal. Once I start reading PDF or image epubs, the "Page XXX of YYY" will have to go! Last edited by Waba; 10-10-2013 at 10:07 AM. |
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10-18-2013, 07:53 AM | #640 |
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Well, I went and bought one. I have touch and just now realized I don't know how to delete a book from ereader. I want to delete it only from aura hd, and leave it on touch, even after they're synced. (Or should I avoid sync?) I also want to remove recommendations tille from home screen.
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10-18-2013, 08:18 AM | #641 |
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if you do a long press on the title of the book you want to delete while on library/shelf you'll have the option to delete it (idk about the syncing, i've never done that and I only have 1 device). same for tiles, though i have no recommendations tile so idk if that's one like the "sync" tile that one can't dismiss? (the dismiss is temporary, iirc)
also if you go to settings>reading life and notifications you can uncheck the kobo notification option (not sure that's what you wanted, but less push from kobo is better). maybe others with more than 1 kobo device will help you more |
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