Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

Hi Ernest-

I'm talking about epubs that are downloadable directly from SOL with premier author service (downloadable formats include: Zip, Txt, Epub, or Kindle). I'm not sure if it affects Bookappy downloads, but it might do so.

Thanks, Ernest. I'll take a look. One of the features of ADE is that it sorts books into specific shelves and helps catalog them. Using another e-Reader might be useful as a short-term solution, but I'll try the software you suggest.

I just checked Lazeez's fix and it seemed to work (thanks again, Lazeez!), so hopefully, I'll be okay going forward.

One of the features of ADE is that it sorts books into specific shelves and helps catalog them.

I use Calibre for that work - https://calibre-ebook.com/

Thanks Lazeez. I'm not sure if it affects other software, but Adobe Digital Editions is one of the most used epub readers in the PC world. Not sure why it glitches on the size 13 font.

Still, I'm not sure why readers should complain about font size when most epub programs can adjust the size to whatever they want.

Anyway, thanks again.

Adobe Digital Editions is one of the most used epub readers in the PC world.

They may claim that, but you're the first or second person I know of who says they use it, while I know many who use the FBReader and a lot more who use the Ebook reader that comes with Calibre, and many people who use that one Amazon puts out as they bought the device.

They may claim that, but you're the first or second person I know of who says they use it, while I know many who use the FBReader and a lot more who use the Ebook reader that comes with Calibre, and many people who use that one Amazon puts out as they bought the device.

I've tried several options (including FBReader last night -which hasn't had a Windows release since 2010, FYI) and ADE still has the best features and displays the best (and has easier controls), IMHO.

I do like Calibre and use some of its other functions, but I don't think the e-reader function displays or works as well as the Adobe product.

I've tried several options (including FBReader last night -which hasn't had a Windows release since 2010, FYI) and ADE still has the best features and displays the best (and has easier controls), IMHO.

I don't see much point in changing things once they get to a point where they work well, so a long time since a new release isn't an issue for me.

I use FBReader on both a tablet and my desktop, and I also use the E-book viewer that comes with Calibre on my desktop. And I find them both do a perfect job of providing a readable text screen in which I can adjust the font size and on the desktop I can adjust the window size. Both are very easy to customise to suit the user. Personally, I can't see anything else in the way of an e-book reader that you could want as you can change the font, font size, display format, rotation, colours, etc in both of them.

I use Calibre to create e-pubs and not as a library manager, so I've not investigated it's capabilities in that area.

I looked at trialling ADE to see what's it's like, but since they do not make it available from their webpage I decided against it. They do have links to send you off to the Crappy store and the GarglePray store so they can get a lot of information on you and track you better, but I don't have an account with either and I have no intention of starting an account with either. Thus I didn't investigate ADE any further. The Adobe site didn't give and easy indication as to whether it was free or you paid for it, and I see nothing on what I can see of their site that they offer anything that Calibre doesn't offer.

Oh, just found something on their site which lets me know ADE is a waste of time for me as it does not support Linux or Unix other than Mac and Android. While Calibre and FBReader support all platforms.

I don't see much point in changing things once they get to a point where they work well, so a long time since a new release isn't an issue for me.

The older 32 Bit software ran a little clunky for me on my Windows 10 machine. The software had some decent features but didn't look as good to me as ADE does. I also liked the ADE controls better. I know it's a matter of personal opinion, but overall, I prefer Adobe Digital Editions (which is still free in its basic version).

I only use ADE for my Windows 10 machine. When I use my android tablet, I use "PocketBook" (though lately, I haven't used my tablet for reading as much).

Kindle for PC is NOT an epub reader.

Never said it was, I simply said that the only people I know, for sure, who use Kindle (couldn't remember if that was the device name or the system name) did so because they had the Kindle device.

Anyone who buys ebooks from Amazon is going to use some version of the Kindle reader as Amazon does not sell ebooks in any format other than their own.

Interestingly, the latest version of Kindle Previewer, contains a popup wich reads:

We recommend using EPUB format for publishing new titles and updating previously published titles. Please use a valid EPUB file for publishing.

And you can't use Kindle Previewer as a reader for AZW files.

I only have it installed for the kindlegen component which is needed by Scrivener.

Anyone who buys ebooks from Amazon is going to use some version of the Kindle reader as Amazon does not sell ebooks in any format other than their own.

I know many people who buy books on Amazon and then use Calibre to convert it to a regular epub.

Next in news: "Adobe Digital Editions upgrades to subscription system."
;)

God forbid!

One can never win.

True, that's why a don't set a base font size in me epubs now, that means the reader's ebook reader has to use it's own settings.

One can never win.

I'm sorry you have to deal with stuff like this, Lazeez. I still don't see why people complain about text size when it is easily adjusted in their e-reader.

I did do another check and found out that the epubs in question only displayed at a "small" size font in ADE (not medium). For some reason, these files displayed in "book layout" at the "small" setting and small font in "medium" or higher (compared to older SOL epub files I tried). I have no idea what causes the glitch.

At any rate, the fix you employed works. So thanks again!

Aaron