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Wow. Give my hyphens over over an unjustified looking justified text any time of the day. |
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07-05-2011, 12:57 PM | #273 | |
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To sum up, it is ridiculously easy to change fonts on the Kobo Touch (and I assume the Nook STR too) but a major pain with the Sony Readers, although both or capable of allowing custom (sideloaded fonts). With the Kobo Touch sideloaded fonts are a FEATURE whereas they are only achieved on the Sony by performing a hack or two. Hopefully these photos can help you judge the font capabilities of the Kobo Touch. Here are the photos:
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07-05-2011, 01:36 PM | #274 |
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07-05-2011, 02:38 PM | #275 |
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07-05-2011, 04:05 PM | #276 | |
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For example on my nook color an ePub "Under The Dome" I'm using the second to the smallest font size. , the smallest line space and the smallest margin settings and I get little to no hypens. but if I increase the margins setting I will see more hyphens being used. so It seems your setting plays a large factor. And I would assume you would see similiar results no matter what ereader you use. Last edited by boswd; 07-05-2011 at 04:12 PM. |
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07-05-2011, 08:37 PM | #277 | |
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I actually prefer the hyphenation as it gives us less large spaces between words. Sometimes you can get a lot of hyphens in printed books. |
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07-05-2011, 08:46 PM | #278 |
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Got my Nook Touch a day ago, and so far I'm loving it.
The default fonts are very dark and clear, and I'm more than satisfied. |
07-05-2011, 08:55 PM | #279 |
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Enjoy it. It's a great device for the price. The longer you've been exposed to these gadgets the more critiquing you tend to do. Glad you were able to filter through all the negative sentiments in this thread and make a satisfying purchase.
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07-05-2011, 08:57 PM | #280 | |
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Every year, when the new generation devices are released, I contemplate upgrading from my PRS505. And every year, I find a reason to "wait for the next ones". So, this time, I said screw it and I just pulled the trigger. I absolutely love the form factor of the Nook Touch, and others may disagree, but the physical page turn buttons are of paramount importance to me. |
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07-06-2011, 02:30 AM | #281 | |
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You are right about printed books I just looked in a paperback and there were quite a few of them. It's been awhile since I've read a paper book. It's strange how there are so few of them on my 950. Even in those screenshots Scion was nice enough to post look how the Kobo has hardly any hyphens then look at the Nook there are a lot. I watched a YouTube review comparing the two and he also mentioned the hyphenation difference between the two readers. In reality it is probably something you would just get used to like I did with paperbacks. |
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It's because B&N is using a newer version of ADE then Sony & Kobo. And hyphenation is one new feature. I'm hoping Sony uses a newer ADE in October.
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Nook is easily rooted and I think it's possible to swap in your own fonts at that point. Personally all I need are couple of good typefaces, ideally optimized for the screen properties (like Kindle's).
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07-12-2011, 09:47 AM | #285 |
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I still like the button savior app for the occasional "how in the heck do I do back in this app" momment ;-)
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