Thread: Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions
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Old 10-20-2013, 07:54 AM   #1597
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Originally Posted by Blossom View Post
Oh don't get me started on the HDX's Kindle Reader. It seem to me it's been dumb down. Mobi books will not show a table of contents. Only AZW3 does. Font wise I've yet to be able to get the publisher's font to show which means embedded fonts don't work! Then there are the covers. Only Amazon Book covers show. Sideloaded and Personal documents only have a generic cover. One looks like plain blue cover with text and the other like a windows icon you would to associate a file type. Not impressed at all with the Kindle Reader but the font rending on the default fonts is amazing but that's all it's got going for it as a reader.
That is disappointing, that the Kindle Reader on the new HDX is even worse than on the 2012 HD. You'll just have to use Mantano for everything on yours. I don't use the Kindle Reader on the HD, in fact I wiped the Fire UI and use n2a now. (But now Mantano Essentials doesn't work, so I have to use Cool Reader to get my font. Argh! Cool Reader is good, though. Retains my formatting, my font works, TOC works, it's acceptable.)

Maybe next year Amazon will get it right...the PW2 with embedded fonts is really great. But I want it smaller and lighter, next year.
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