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Originally Posted by JCKobo
We have a winner! Those are indeed the two fonts on the Kobo Reader.
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I have a question for the Kobo rep, and anyone else who might have noticed the same thing:
I've got a combination of ebook types on my Kobo: the 100 preloaded books, 5 or so bought through the Kobo/Borders store, and another couple of 100 non-DRM EPUBs.
With the preloaded books and the Kobo store books, they are totally stripped of formatting (italic, heading tags, images etc.), yet they appear in either of the two nice fonts described above. (I was really disappointed about having bought one book in particular through the Kobo store that doesn't have any of its illustrations.)
Whereas any EPUB I've loaded will retain all the formatting (although font sizes are stripped due to the temporary fix in the new firmware); however, they display in two of the ugliest fonts I've ever seen. I know that none of the EPUBs has @font-face specified (I've created most of the files myself): the default fonts for EPUBs on Kobo appear to be really ugly generic serif or sans-serif fonts.
My question is, why are preloaded or bought books displayed on the one hand with the nice font, but on the other hand totally plain-text, while EPUBs (DRM or otherwise) are displayed in a totally different set of nasty fonts but with proper formatting? Can't we have nice formatting and nice fonts both?
I love the Kobo, but am annoyed that neither its own books nor my own loaded books display totally properly.
Cheers
P.S. An interesting side-note is that the book I mentioned above, which was stripped of its illustrations when loaded through the Kobo app, when downloaded as an EPUB through Adobe Digital Editions, had its images and formatting back, but, despite having a @font-face specified, was instead displayed in the ugly generic fonts.