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Originally Posted by Fourl29
All good points all around.
I intensely dislike caecilia too, and find futura and helvetica not great either.
One of the reasons I opted for the kindle was exactly all that wasted space on the kobo, that ridiculous wasted 2 cm space.
I've not yet bothered to use the font tweak for the kindle, although I thought it was one of the first things I thought I 'd install. Although I am fully aware that it's urgently required, and that amazon has done very averagely when it comes to available fonts, and margins, even worse than average maybe. I 'll get around to it I guess soon. But it did sway me toward the kpw, as I knew that were the kobo had an edge, one could get that easily with a tweak in the kpw.
At the end of the day I ended up really liking the overall reading and software experience. (as an aside, I also really like how I have the store built in and I can check out some of the reviews when I am reading a book. And I have been very positively impressed by the experimental browser.)
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Thanks for the link you very nicely provided in another thread
http://www.displaywars.com/6-inch-4x3-vs-6,8-inch-4x3
I don't think 1 or two cm vertically is a deal breaker when it is carefully considered.
I calculate the difference as 1.6 cm vertically and 1 cm. horizontally (portrait mode)
It is only 1 cm for the line number with epubs I believe and I like the line number displayed. I do not like to have to push a button or tap in an area to see it. Personal preference I know.
The added horizontal space is just as significant to me, maybe more so and it seems to be largely ignored. More characters per line = more characters per page and no extra space is taken up by the spacing between lines.
The increased resolution means either a smaller font size that I can read or more importantly a wider range in which to find my most comfortable reading settings.
The missing 1 cm. (2 cm if you use kepubs?) means I will have to turn an extra page about every 20 or 30 pages. I am sure there is someone who keeps track and says to themselves oh no there is that extra page turn again, but not me:0.
I am not a big Kobo fan and I don't hate kindles, all things being equal I would buy Sony, but fickle me, I will go for the superior hardware every time and hope that the software catches up.
Helen