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Originally Posted by Fourl29
Would I exchange my overall kindle experience for a larger screen? No way.
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I for one would really appreciate that Amazon would add more (official) font options, and even go as far to add the weight and sharpness settings the Kobo as.
That is the one thing I find the Paperwhite lacking in. Even the Cybook Gen3 from 2007 offered custom fonts. Officially. The Kindle can do it using a trick, but Amazon could take that out at any moment. Most of the fonts that are on the Kindle have one or more problems:
- The lines are spaced too wide. For example, Palatino has a line height that it twice that of my custom "DejaVu Serif Fat" font.
- Some fonts are too thin, mainly Palatino and Baskerville.
- Some fonts have a decent line height and are heavy enough, but they're just plain ugly, such as Caecilia. And it's too wide too.
- Futura and Helvetica are, IMHO, just hard to read.
I always have the feeling that Amazon designed the Paperwhite, and at the end came to the conclusion that they needed to provide fonts too, for... you know... reading.
The font settings and capabilities of the Aura are one of the main reasons why I consider this reader, but not if it wastes copious amounts of space by constantly showing me the title of the book I'm reading, the page I'm on (and not down in a corner, but prominently taking up 2cm or so of the bottom of the screen), and using a ridiculous line height. If the Kobo fits only 10% more text than the Kindle because of that, then its larger screen is wasted, IMHO.
As long as the Kindles USE_ALT_FONTS trick keeps working, that is. Then I can put my own font onto the reader, after tweaking it on the computer.