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Originally Posted by Tomac10000
- Font rendering and choices are nowhere near as legible as text found on the Kindle 3. It doesn't matter that the new Kobo Touch and the Kindle 3 share the same E Ink Pearl tech. Each character does not render completely black, which also interrupts flow. Additionally, some lines of text appear darker compared to others on the same page.
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- Side-loaded ebooks: not searchable; words cannot be highlighted; and the dictionary cannot be utilized. The Kindle 3 does not have these issues.
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Since Kobo have said they'll offer an update to allow the refresh delay to be adjusted, these are the two major issues that concern me.
Changes in text colour over the page might be related to the lack of a full refresh, and comparing the fonts to something like a Kindle would mean switching to Avenir since the Kindle's (rather ugly) version of Caecilia is purposely designed to render as black as possible. The greatest advantage of proper (i.e. non-Apple) ePub is that it is capable of rendering arbitrary fonts. I'm not a great fan of hinting, since the entire purpose of it is to distort the font to fit the pixel grid, and vectors designed for square pixels on an LCD screen wouldn't be entirely appropriate for eInk anyway.
It would be nice to see some pictures of what both fonts look like in practice, though.
The lack of highlighting on side-loaded books is just silly (I couldn't care about the dictionary) - that removes one of the major advantages of a touch screen.