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Old 06-04-2023, 12:59 AM   #46
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Old 06-04-2023, 02:35 AM   #47
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The best version of Baskerville is Baskerville eText. But it costs and is rather expensive.
You don't like the version included by Amazon with the Kindle? It looks perfectly fine to me.
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Old 06-04-2023, 02:42 AM   #48
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You don't like the version included by Amazon with the Kindle? It looks perfectly fine to me.
It’s too wide!

I’m a bit of a font nut, myself.

My favourite would have to be Adobe Garamond.
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Old 06-04-2023, 04:44 AM   #49
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You don't like the version included by Amazon with the Kindle? It looks perfectly fine to me.
It's not the same as Baskerville eText.

https://blog.fonts.com/2013/04/03/et...ng-experiences
https://blog.fonts.com/2013/08/06/etext-part-deux/
https://www.linotype.com/6991/etext-fonts.html
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Old 06-04-2023, 05:09 AM   #50
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You don't like the version included by Amazon with the Kindle? It looks perfectly fine to me.
I'm not a fan of Bookerly either, but I know a lot of people like it. It's too light and "spread out" for my taste.

Choice is good.
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Old 06-04-2023, 05:46 AM   #51
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I'm not a fan of Bookerly either, but I know a lot of people like it. It's too light and "spread out" for my taste.

Choice is good.
Choice is good. But my question is where did most of the people using Bookerly (not on a Kindle) get the copy they are using? Did they extract it from an Amazon firmware or did they steal it?
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Choice is good. But my question is where did most of the people using Bookerly (not on a Kindle) get the copy they are using? Did they extract it from an Amazon firmware or did they steal it?
Here is the link you are looking for:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/a...nes/typography
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Old 06-04-2023, 07:00 AM   #53
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Here is the link you are looking for:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/a...nes/typography
It's an old version.
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Old 06-04-2023, 08:05 AM   #54
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It's an old version.
Contact Amazon; maybe they will give you a newer version.
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Old 06-04-2023, 08:10 AM   #55
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Contact Amazon; maybe they will give you a newer version.
The latest version can be had from current Kindle firmware. But the version of Bookerly from the firmware will need some fixing.
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Old 06-04-2023, 08:34 PM   #56
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Choice is good. But my question is where did most of the people using Bookerly (not on a Kindle) get the copy they are using? Did they extract it from an Amazon firmware or did they steal it?
I just downloaded it from Amazon. They can have it back if they want it.
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Old 06-04-2023, 11:11 PM   #57
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One of the problems I've noticed is that a lot of fonts are really expensive. I'd love to be able to try Monotype Baskerville eText but that's not happening at the price charged.
If that is the one font you really want to use, couldn't you just create your own font based on a sample of the typeface? You wouldn't be breaking copyright law as you are not downloading the font itself, just making your own version based on the typeface.
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I don't see how kerning makes ligatures necessary.
I had a font (can't remember which one, sorry) where there weren't ligatures. So when there was an 'fi' pair, the hook on the top of the f overlapped with the tittle of the i. Overlapped, but didn't merge, so the f looked deformed. It was awkward looking and I noticed it every time. Fonts should disappear, not draw attention to themselves.

Edit: This isn't from my reader, but here's an image for the interwebz:
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I just downloaded it from Amazon. They can have it back if they want it.
When some were saying they were using Bookerly on a non-Amazon Reader, they got it from the net not legally.

So that's why the ask.
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I had a font (can't remember which one, sorry) where there weren't ligatures. So when there was an 'fi' pair, the hook on the top of the f overlapped with the tittle of the i. Overlapped, but didn't merge, so the f looked deformed. It was awkward looking and I noticed it every time. Fonts should disappear, not draw attention to themselves.

Edit: This isn't from my reader, but here's an image for the interwebz:
I like this fi ligature.

Name: fi.jpg Views: 456 Size: 2.0 KB
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