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Originally Posted by slantybard
So why would I consider switching to the Aura from the KPW1 especially with the upcoming KPW2 Carta device? The biggest reason would be the difficulty in modifying the way books are displayed in Kindles including fonts, margins, justification, line spacing, and collections. The Kindles have required quite a lot of work to develop hacks for and repeatedly break those hacks with each update (java obfuscation anyone?). I expect that the KPW2 will be even harder to jailbreak and customize and may take over a year to develop a significant depth of modifications available for use.
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Exactly. This was the reason to switch to Kobo for me. No more waiting for hacks from admittedly brilliant developers. Kobo in combination with Calibre (and Sigil in desperate circumstances) provide the right ability to tweak.