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Originally Posted by forster01
Hello all, I have same question about ereader choice. Seems to me that aura is the best on the market, but before i order one, i have a few questions:
1. on screen text utilization, on some video reviews i saw that text has huge spacing between the lines. if that is the case what is the purpose of having 0,8" more screen. When in that case there can be only few words more on the screen then on the PW.
2. Is the support for east European languages settled for this one (Cyrillic, and Latin with special characters)?
I'm using kindle 4, and I'm looking for newer option.
Thank you in advance for you advices.
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1. Line spacing in any given standard epub can be dependent on the styling coded inside that particular epub. If your epubs are not copy-protected and you are proficient with an epub editor (e.g. Sigil) you can change undesirable publisher line/paragraph spacing to anything you want. Kobos do have a font menu option to change the line spacing, however the current minimum (1.3) is larger than some people would like. To put that number in context many retail epubs seem to have an internal setting of 1.2. The very large spacing between each paragraph seen on most of those video reviews bears no resemblance to how my epubs look.
2. Kobos have 10 (or is it 11???) built-in fonts. Most of them do not have good coverage of Cyrillic or East Euro special characters. However, Kobo allows you to easily load any fonts you like just by drag-drop to a particular directory on the device (with a Kobo naming convention). No hacking is required. This gives you lots of flexibilty and it should not be a problem to find free ones with good coverage of Cyrillic etc. (e.g. Charis SIL, Linux Libertine). A word of warning though, the Advanced font setting options (weight and sharpness) only work with built-in fonts not your sideloaded ones.