http://www.teleread.com/drm/simon-and-schuster-releases-uglies-drm-free/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/drm/simon-and-schuster-releases-uglies-drm-free/comment-page-1/#comment-1118086 Mary Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=26283#comment-1118086 Paul, I hope your eyesight is better than mine if you plan to read it on the iPhone. I downloaded it and gave it a shot with GoodReader (EXCELLENT app, by the way). But even viewing it in landscape mode, the print was small and a strain, although I could read it. But not happily. If I make the print larger, then I have to scroll sideways with each line. So I sent it on to the free Amazon conversion and will read it on my K2. That is the whole problem with pdfs and why I do not think that the DX (which I don't own) is the solution. If a pdf is created from something with smallish type to begin with, then smallish is what you will get in the pdf. If the font is larger, so it will be on the pdf. We are held hostage to the original. That is one of the many joys of the K1 and K2—being able to make the font whatever size is most comfortable. On your computer screen you can view a pdf at 150% or whatever, but it's only what you are seeing; the pdf is not reflowing as the Kindle text is. Paul, I hope your eyesight is better than mine if you plan to read it on the iPhone. I downloaded it and gave it a shot with GoodReader (EXCELLENT app, by the way). But even viewing it in landscape mode, the print was small and a strain, although I could read it. But not happily. If I make the print larger, then I have to scroll sideways with each line. So I sent it on to the free Amazon conversion and will read it on my K2. That is the whole problem with pdfs and why I do not think that the DX (which I don’t own) is the solution. If a pdf is created from something with smallish type to begin with, then smallish is what you will get in the pdf. If the font is larger, so it will be on the pdf. We are held hostage to the original. That is one of the many joys of the K1 and K2—being able to make the font whatever size is most comfortable. On your computer screen you can view a pdf at 150% or whatever, but it’s only what you are seeing; the pdf is not reflowing as the Kindle text is.

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