[FM Discuss] epub test

[Simon Worthington]

Hi,

BTW there is a good list of readers here

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_software

Simon

On 27/01/2010 05:24, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 16:05, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have any tips for reading epubs on iphone?
> 
> To answer my own question, use the free app "Stanza" - seems to work fine:
> 
> http://www.lexcycle.com/
> 
> obvious problems from initial flick through:
> 
>  - formatting looks weird when justified. Not weird, just that ugly
> "add spaces to fill line" concept. Actually, now that I look at it,
> that is coupled with a hyphen at the end of a line to break words up?
> looks odd having both
> 
>  - links that are hyphenated/broken don't show as links, and don't
> open in safari. Ok, my initial analysis is wrong - some links work,
> other's don't - hard to see any pattern to this behaviour.
> 
>  - the Anonymous rant at the start looks strange due to the brevity of
> some of the sentences, coupled with the dot point formatting (large
> space between * and first letter) but not helped by the fact that
> "Anonymous" is a long word and starts most of those sentences.
> 
>  - seem to be a lot of a-hat characters: â "U+00E2 (226)" according to
> OOo. Looks like they are replacing some sort of hyphen or dash.
> 
> otherwise it looks good :) I presume some of these problems could be
> the "stanza" software not the book?
> 
> cheers
> L.
> 
> 

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