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As a member of the "still happy with my pw1"-club I'm wondering which way Amazon will go with the 3rd generation Paperwhite.
It must be said that I'm happy with the pw1 only in part due to Amazon hard- and software. Things like hyphenation, working embedded fonts, additional font choices etc are for me of great significance. Calibre, plugins and some products of the "dev corner" add a good deal to my reading experience (thank you to all involved)!
Now with the hardware I see a 300+ dpi screen, better light and a faster processor.
With the software I fear Amazon will follow the route set with PW2 (and the 5.4 firmware for the PW1): more or less no development concerning the core "render a formatted text on an ink screen" and no development of user choices to influence text rendering but more "apps" and "social media".
For me a buyable PW3 must have:
- user selectable Hyphenation and Text Justification
- full font kerning
- full support of CSS3 (example: page-break, widows and orphans tags)
- seamless integration of embedded fonts
- option to install custom fonts
No, I don't buy books because my favourite font is used; and I think I'm not "anal retentive" about text layout. But I hope Amazon will have a look at the user interface and at the text rendering. If not Kobo may be the way to go for my next e-reader.
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