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Old 08-27-2013, 03:27 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by 7tywan View Post
Hi all,

this is my first post on this forum, since I'm very new to e-reading and Kobo Touch, which I own for more than a month now.

The device is fantastic and I enjoy it everyday and everynight, but there are some "issues" (not sure I can define them as such, therefore the quotation marks) I'd like to share.

First, I bought an epub from a local bookstore (I'm in Italy) and I found impossible to change the default font (Bodoni, I guess: pretty heavy...), probably embedded in the file. I could not even change the size of the font.

Any clue on how to deal with that?

The second thing is that I bought a second epub, again from the same store, this time I had no problems at all with the fonts, but the formatting was not even: some pages showed only 3 lines of text while others were completely empty, in general the paragraphs were not spaced evenly...strangely (or not?), when I uploaded the file to the android tablet I have, all this formatting problems disappeared when opening the file with Aldiko (one of the most downloaded e-reading app for Android) and the book rendered perfectly on the 9" screen of the device, making the reading experience much better than on the Kobo...

How can I get the same reading quality on the Kobo? Is it a reader (e.g. software) limitation?

Does it mean that the rendering engine (if I might call it this way) of Aldiko is better than the Kobo? Or what?

Thanks in advance for all your answers!
Hey noticed you made reference to Author Glenn Cooper. can you advise as to what kind of author he is and what genre he writes?

thanks

Welcome aboard.

Regards

JAck
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