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Originally Posted by HarryT
Firstly, the Kindle and the Kobo Touch use precisely the same screen, made in the same factory, on the same production line. There are no "Kindle and Kobo variants" - the screen is the same in the two devices. So you can rule out screen differences as being a cause of different appearance.
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I said variants because the older Kindles and Kobo's had E Ink Vizplex verse Pearl screens. It's also a strong assertion to say they come out of the same factory/production lines unless you have some real insight into E Ink Holdings operations, but yes for all intents and purposes they are the same screens within corresponding variants.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's well-known that the Kindle font is "hand-optimized" by Amazon to the device. It's because, unlike the Kobo, the Kindle doesn't have changeable fonts (well, OK, it has three different fonts, but that's it - you can't load your own) whereas the Kobo has to deal with any font, so the font rendering engine can't be optimized for any particular font.
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It's not known to me, hence why I asked. There is also a difference between marketing spin "waveform and font technology" and reality. Maybe they do have some real smarts going on, that’s why I asked.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is true of any ADE device, not just the Kobo. If I compare the fonts on the Kindle with my Sony PRS-350 or my BeBook Neo, the Kindle's fonts are distinctly crisper in their appearance.
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Regardless of fonts used? I don't have access to so many devices so I'll take your word for it, but in photos it seems that through font choice there is little difference. Be interesting to do a blind test with people already not familiar with Kindle's typeface.