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Originally Posted by Katsunami
To be honest, that stuff is why I keep looking toward Kobo readers with one eye. They have more fonts than the Kindle, and you can adjust how they look. If you're STILL not happy, you can load your own fonts. (However, the adjustments don't work on those, or so I've been told.)
There are a few things that keep me away from Kobo:
1. Kobo wastes a lot of screen space with line height and headers and footers.
2. It's an EPUB reader, but many functions only work with their KEPUB format. It seems that the internals of AZW3 are closer to EPUB than KEPUB, and the AZW3 format seems to be understood better at this point. If I have to convert from EPUB, then I'd rather convert to the better known format.
3. The fracking bugs that always crop up... at least the ones I see when lurking in the Kobo forum. (I rarely post there, because I don't have a Kobo, but I do read it.)
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I'm afraid your info is out-of-date. There are friendly Kobo hackers who have provided the ability to:
- adjust font weight on all fonts, including sideloaded.
- make the footer as big/small as you like, including none. Standard epubs do not have a header at all, so no space wasted there.
- full customisation of 24 different font sizes, 9 different left/right page margins (incl none), 9 different line spacing values
It is true that kepubs have a few extra features that standard epubs don't, such as various reading metrics, support for right-to-left languages (and some vertical, I think) and some image zooming. Personally, I prefer to stick to standard epubs.
Of course, as with all hacks, every new firmware version poses the challenge of whether the old hacks can rise like a phoenix from the flames. I'm keeping my fingers crossed
