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by azertify 34 days ago
The layout engine is limited. It does flow text quite well, but when I had mine (the screen broke a few months ago) I was working on adding more features to the rendering engine.

It's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec, but hard to do it well on such a constrained chip. Even things like nested lists and inline code snippets are a challenge.
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mapontosevenths 34 days ago
Flash Crosspoint. I reflows much better than stock. It also fixes the lack of space between paragraphs.
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criddell 34 days ago
Sounds like it’s still pretty early days then. I’ll probably hold off for a year or two and check again.
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__float 34 days ago
Even a year from now you're still likely to need a custom firmware.

The custom firmware today is more than good enough, and the devices often sell for under $70.

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criddell 34 days ago
That must be why Amazon does a lot of pre-processing on their server. They know what device they are sending to and can tailor the file for that device.

Maybe expecting the X4 to look great is asking too much. It took Amazon years to get it right on Kindle. Hyphenation is a difficult task.

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Finnucane 33 days ago
>t's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec

And yet reading systems fail to do that.

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