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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what did you switch to over calibre?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PDF is so much worse on eReaders..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They work fine on my devices, but everyone will have different preferences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The issue is that text cannot reflow, so if a given page has a large amount of text on it, you're going to have to manually zoom into and scroll back and forth.