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Originally Posted by bibahbuzemann
Kindle, Sony, Nook whatever have done one thing right, and that's to make the standard font readable.
If it's the publishers intent, they can embed any kind of font they like, right there in the ebook.
When you buy any kind of book, you get exactly what the publisher wants you to get. If they want you to get a fancy font, they'll give it to you. If they neglect to define a specific, fancy font in their ebook, they are assuming your ereader will render thier content in a readable fashion.
If font-fetishism is your thing, maybe you'll get blast out of this:
Go to your local bookstore, have a salesperson find you a book, and say:
"I'd really like to buy this book, but could I have one with a sans serif font?"
Slack jaw!
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You mean readable for you ? What a lucky guy !
Again and again the same assumption: if it the old technology (here books) didn't implement it and I don't need or just want this feature, why would you integrate that in the new one ?
Some of the answers:
1) no technology is perfect.
2) because now we can
3) Some people have problems or needs YOU DON'T.
I know a person who cannot read small text and can't use glasses or contact lenses because he have a conic cornea (keratoconus). He JUST NEEDS big fonts.