Hello @jordan0day, thank you for buying the book – and for appreciating the ethos!
I have reported this to Leanpub, where the PDF and ePub files originate; their ePub export is sub-par, which is weird for a website that deals with books as its main focus… It could also be that the file is rather large (besides the cover image) – on my Android and ReadEra it takes a few seconds to load, but pages load instantly when leafing through it.
I just tried this though: I converted the original ePub file with Calibre to ePub again and I don’t know what it did besides making the cover lower-resolution, but the exported file is faster to load and leaf through.
The asciidoctor port will happen within 2025, but I’m currently busy with Phoenix Product Codex and a yet-unreleased book on an API client that I need urgently for a project.
I’ve had two readers report one minor typo each, so I’ll be releasing a new version and errata within August.
Good call on using calibre – the reading experience in calibre isn’t as nice as some of the other apps (foliate is so far my preferred epub reader), but somehow converting from epub to epub (lol?) in calibre did produce a new version that seems to work just fine in foliate!
Calibre excels at converting books and maintaining a library. Its’ UX is subpar, and fixing that is effectively impossible because its maintainer (Kovid Goyal) is very cranky.
What I do is I set my preferred reader for EPUBs to Foliate and the preferred format to EPUB in Calibre and then convert the original copy that I have (usually KFX, AZW3, or MOBI) to EPUB. Then I whenever I select a book in Calibre it pops up Foliate instead of Calibre’s viewer.
You can change the font size with Calibre to a size that’s comfortable for you. See docs. In this case it’s probably just a matter of updating the affect classes in the stylesheet with some CSS to fix the entire book. No need to request changes from @waseigo!
Apologies, I dont want to hijack this thread with something that is off topic but wow, ive just downloaded calibre and so far the customization options are great. I normally dont read epub on my computer , my complaint was made on the pdf version of the book, but the font size on the epub looks normal and calibre allows me to increase it easily
