I've been lusting after a Sony Librie eBook reader after hearing so many good things about its fabulous e-ink display, but one thing the reviews never touched on was how much text you could fit onto a page before it became unreadable. I had heard reports from some people who'd converted PDFs to images and said that the text was often too small and had to be converted upwards, but there was nothing on the font sizes of text presented from the default Librie LRF file format. (I'd much prefer to store my books as LRF plaintext than as images).
So I downloaded the Librie software which includes a nice simulation of the Librie and my fears were confirmed - despite the Librie display being quite small, the smallest font size is still so huge that space and time bends towards it. Unfortunately, short of turning all the pages into images of smaller text, there's no way of making the font any smaller. To make things mildly worse, the huge page margin (which is in addition to the artifical 'plastic' margin of the Librie's case) is not adjustable.
This is an issue for me given the slightly odd fashion in which I read which requires a lot of flipping back and forth up and down through content, and is exacerbated by the Librie apparently taking 1 second to update the display when turning pages, so if you read at a decent speed (say, 600wpm) then you will have to deal with 1 second pauses every 20 seconds or so.
I'd love to hear from anyone with hands-on experience with the unit who could correct me.
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have you ever found a solution to this problem? i'm considering buying one and this a deal breaker.
i found a screen shot of one that seemed much better (though its in cyrillic):
http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-bergme2/libriebilder/front-both.jpg
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