[FM Discuss] epub test

[adam hyde]

thanks


just tested on Calibre and the sony reader and it looks great. yay for
booki

adam


On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:48 +0000, Simon Worthington wrote:
> 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 wrot
> > 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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