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Originally Posted by talaivan
Kovid -- have you played with the Kindle? What you say in the previous message is quite correct -- you can do things with the Sony that you can't with the Kindle. There seems to be a fundamentally different system used for interpreting text. The Sony allows font and formatting info to be included in the lrf file, while on the Kindle, the only control you have on font and formatting is through the reader -- it's not in the mobireader file. This means, I think, that no one can write a program to change the format on the Kindle. Only Amazon can do that by allowing one to change the format through a preference on the reader. This also means that formatting options will be far more limited on the Kindle (no Russian, Greek, etc.) -- you will have to be content with whatever formatting options Amazon deems fitting to provide. Right now, you're stuck with double-spacing. You can't turn it off (I even asked them -- they said no). Also, I have both devices and am coming to the conclusion that the Sony is easier to hold and more comfortable to read.
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No I haven't yet played with it, but this seems to be in line with their general policy of restricting functionality, either because they're too lazy to implement it, or because they feel their customers don't deserve it.