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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I believe time-to-read type reading stats used to work in sideloaded kepubs up to fw 2.6? or 2.8? but don't work in the current 3.x fw.
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Meh. It works on the KPW1, with AZW3/MOBI files created by either Calibre or Kindlegen. If it worked with 2.x and not with 3.x firmwares, I suspect that Kobo doesn't care about side-loaded books and so doesn't care if this feature is broken on non-Kobo books.
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As far as fonts are concerned, font thickness and sharpness settings are, by default, restricted to most (not all) of the built-in fonts. In addition:
- if you 'cheat' and name your sideloaded fonts (internally and externally) with one of a few (4 at last count) font names. Then thickness/sharpness adjustment is also available. I wouldn't call this cheat 'hacking'.
- There is also a real hack which does make thickness/sharpness available to all sideloaded fonts. If you're not interested in hacking, fair enough, but don't assume applying a Kobo hack is anything like as complicated as jailbreaking and layering hacks on a Kindle. To a technical guy, such as yourself, it's done in a couple of minutes (maybe a bit longer the first 'nervous' time).
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I just don't want to hack the thing and (possibly) het into trouble updating later on. Just BECAUSE Kobo updates the firmware that often, I don't want to hack it, lest I would have to miss out on important bugfixes.
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Finally, also be aware that a correct Kobo answer today may be an incorrect Kobo answer next week, and vice versa, if there's a firmware upgrade in the middle 
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So it is still the case that you are bug-swapping over here; fix one bug, get another one in return, or see an old already fixed bug turn up again?
That's... not funny.
Thanks for answering.
I have a feeling that I'm going to stick to my Kindle and suck it up with regard to the small font selection, and just hope that there will be a larger Kindle and/or a newer one with more fonts, at some point.
(Yes, I know, USE_ALT_FONTS enables extra fonts, but only on the KPW1, and if I REALLY want to, I can just embed the wanted font into the book during the AZW3 conversion. Many fonts don't work well on the KPW however: way too thin.)
The only thing I'd like to have, from the KPW2, is the permanent page number display on the bottom line; but maybe, that feature will be backported one day.