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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Are even Caecilia, Caecilia Condensed and Verdana too thin for you? Futura is actually quite fat as well, but not very readable.
I completely concur with Baskerville and Palatino being too thin to read on an e-ink screen. They look very nice, but for people with less than stellar eye-sight, they may be hard to read if not set very large.
I myself have resorted to just embedding my preferred font into the AZW3 file. That's easy, as I convert everything from EPUB, and don't use the AZW3 for anything except for reading on the Kindle.
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Yes, they are all too thin. Out of the lot the only ones I like, though they are too thin, is Caecilia and Caecilia Condensed. I've got a Caecilia Heavy I put together and can embed, but that is kludge. I would greatly prefer never having to deDRM, edit in Sigil, rebuild in Kindle Previewer, then send to Kindle. Sure the process is easy to do, but it takes time, and there are issues with embedding. The major issue is that the embedded fonts will not display in Kindle for iOS. So if I modify the eBook I simply add a statement to bold everything because that does work in Kindle for iOS and I like the way Caecilia and Caecilia Condensed look when bolded. But all text being bolded makes heading blend in too well with normal text. Plus I don't like having to take the time to do it and then winding up with a Personal Document rather than a Book.