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Originally Posted by HarryT
One additional benefit of the CyBook's font handling is that it has proper support for font families - ie one gets "real" italic and bold fonts, rather than the Sony's synthesised italics. I would consider that to be a significant benefit; others, of course, may not.
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One workaround on the Sony for the crap synthesized italics is to include the italic font in the book. Page turn speed is largely unaffected (presumably because each page displays very few italicized words) and it looks much nicer.
It does bloat the size of each book by one or two megs though.
Also, if you use epub instead of lrf, it looks as though you can specify the font you want in CSS and point to a URL on the Reader itself instead of embedding the font (this way you can have one set of fonts for many books instead of embedding the font separately in each book). Look the the thread here on Mobileread.
I agree that font handling is a strength of the Cybook though; I'm jealous of the number of sizes available to Cybook owners.