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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Sigh. OK. I'll think I'll pass this Kobo up too.
To be honest, it's #$%@$#% ridiculous that the Paperwhite is a better epub-reader than a real epub-reader, when converting the epubs using Calibre. At least for me it seems to be. (The only thing I'd like the Paperwhite to do extra is to actually display the book description that i put in <dc:description> (in my source epub), but maybe mobi/azw does not have a similar tag. The Kindle tries to connect to the internet to display the description.)
With all those bugs and using different readers, I have a feeling that Kobo is making things a lot more difficult for themselves than need be, with their extra kepb format.
And having things like title and pagenumbers displayed all the time without the possibility to turn that off and use the space for text is just dumb IMHO. The page number could be down in a corner, in the same size as the book itself. Maybe, just maybe, put a blank line in between. Or if the user sets enough margin, put it in there. There is no need whatsoever to continually see the title of the book.
The Kobo readers have a lot of great and very advanced features with regard to readability (such as many fonts, sizes, and even weight and sharpness adjustment), but they leave out some elementary stuff like setting the line spacing to 1.0 and removing unwanted stuff from the screen.
I find it a pity, because with regard to font options, layout options, screen size, resolution, and looks (especially the warm-white front light), I really like the Aura HD.
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I usually don't quote an entire long post just to say I agree, but you basically said everything I want to say. My feelings exactly!
They really make some unfortunate choices with their software. I notice with ePub , without the title there is almost no margin at top, but still large empty space at bottom. It looks very unappealing. Kepub at least has the virtue of symmetry; unfortunately, it's symmetry of wasted space.
People talk about the home screen and library view and organizing and all that, but those are all minor consideration for me. The reading screen has to be right, otherwise it's no go for me
