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This is one of the good features of the basic Kindle, IMO. The HTML 3.2/.opf based Mobipocket format doesn't allow a lot of format control, beyond reflow and simple handling of in-line pictures. The "I must have control of every tiny bit of the formatting" crowd hates it, but most anything that sticks to the simple rules will render in a decent format on a Kindle (and similarly designed devices). Same deal in the essentially similar MS Reader software. (Requiescat in Pace)
If you hack your Kindle(etc.) because you have to have some particular font, on your head be it. Other readers give you more control, but you also have the power to screw up. Remember, Bezo's stated goal with the Kindle was to have the device disappear from your experience. Same for the MS Reader team (ref. Bill Hill & 'Osprey'). That only counts if you play by the device's very simplified rules. Other devices have other goals, virtues and faults. YMMV.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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