One last item—on Sony Reader firmware update and its ePub and PDF wrinkles—before our electricity goes off
For maintenance purposes, the electricity around here is about to go off. Look for new TeleBlog items later today or tonight.
Meanwhile check out Feedbooks’ observations on the pros and cons of the Sony Reader PRS-505 firmware upgrade—in regard to both ePub and PDF. Agree or disagree?
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Since I finally bit the bullet and bought a Sony Reader last night, I’m probably the last person with the expertise to comment on what’s changed. The reflow and the text size are legitimate concerns (I think the text size is probably easier to address than the reflow issue.) I am far less concerned with justified text than the FB folks. Apparently they’ve never had to read 8.5×11 (or A4) pages with justified text across the whole span. Yuck. Save the Ragged Edges!
August 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
There’s a whole difference between justified text with and without hyphenation.
Without any proper hyphenation, justified text can be very ugly (especially on a small screen). But for me, the best experience that you can get is with justification, proper hyphenation rules and the correct use of non-breaking spaces.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Ah, brings back memories from the 1980s when I worked in a consulting firm and the big thing was hyphenation software. 28 years years later … and it’s still a big thing.
And everyone thinks text is so simple!