On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:24, Greg Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregsmitholpc@gmail.com">gregsmitholpc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Any opinions? Is it fatally broken or does it just needs some tweaking<br>
to make it more usable?</blockquote><div><br>I use my XO to read books all the time, I just don't use sugar...<br><br>In my experience, the best "format" to use is plain old UTF-8 text and vim.<br><br>The current major blockers for me with using... say... Browse as a HTML-ebook-reader is the ease of access to the "end" button when in book mode; one false press and you've skipped to the end of a document, not to mention the fact that you cannot save your place. Other than that, it works well for simple (non-AJAXY) books. <br>
<br>And PDF rendering, on 8.2.0 at least, is too slow in my opinion for book-reading.<br><br>-lf <br></div></div><br>