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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
JSWolf made an interesting comment a few posts back about the Nook ST's font rendering engine being inferior to that of the Sony x50.
Do either of you find that to be true? I'll try to take another look this afternoon myself, when I'll be near a B&N store. Truthfully, I was so amazed by the ST's font choices that I probably didn't pay enough attention.
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Put an ePub on your Sony that uses Charis. One of the Star Wars ePub samples from B&N would do fine and the sample does not have DRM. Find one of the new Star Wars ePub samples and load it on the nook.
This way you can compare the same exact embedded font and you should find that the Sony renders so much nicer then the nook. The nook just doesn't get the strokes right so you have uneven strokes and some of the strokes are too think and it's very noticeable. It looked like a different font to me. I happen to have had a book that used Charis and used a Star Wars sample that uses Charis. So my comparison showed the flaw of the nook's font rendering engine.
I took a look at Charis using ADE for Windows and I did not see that the Sony was doing anything to force it to look better. I did not see any lines that were thin.