@cybmole,
Re: the font weight & sharpness settings . My observations are the same as David's. The only place they are stored is in the .conf config file (as computer-readable values not human-readable) and they are values assigned to a font-family not to a book. The font-family is a per-book setting (in content_settings) but the weight/sharpness is always read from the config file. From fw 3.2 there is only a weight slider in Advanced settings but both weight and sharpness values are written to the config file if you move the slider. e.g. from my .conf file
Code:
[Reading]
readingFontSharpness\Arno%20Pro="@Variant(\0\0\0\x87=L\xcc\xcd)"
readingFontWeight\Arno%20Pro=@Variant(\0\0\0\x87>\xb3\x33\x33)
The standard fw only enables the Advanced button for (most of) its built-in fonts. The Kobo Patcher, should you ever succumb, enables it for all fonts, including those sideloaded into /fonts. This is one of my favourite Kobo features. I've never used the sharpness slider so the combining of weight & sharpness into a single slider didn't bother me.
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Hmm, maybe i was too quick to dismiss mantano- what does it off that the Kobo, Kindle apps dont have ?
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These are only personal opinions, of course:
- internal css is honoured better than any other epub app I've tried
- text-to-speech works for every book I own. I use this a lot, to continue 'reading' when physical circumstances wouldn't otherwise allow it.
- good control over line spacing & page margins. My only android device is a phone, albeit a big phone, so reducing excess whitespace matters.
- enough other customisation to be useful without being confusing
- can use my own sideloaded weightier fonts (OK, so I'm a bit of a font control freak
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- allows me to define where my books are stored thereby reducing superfluous scanning, and it doesn't duplicate each book into its own private area
- uses ADE page numbering so I can find my place when I swap back to e-reader
- doesn't require me to log in to access sideloaded books (i.e. all of them)
- good free 3rd-party dictionary support via Colordict
- can create homescreen widget(s) to currently reading book(s) for instant access
- last but not least - although it does have its own pretty reasonable library management system - it also works very well with Calibre Companion which has even better library management. So CC used for book transfer, browsing for next book, Mantano used for the actual reading - or listening
Despite the above I do like to keep a selection of other reading apps on my device because things change. There are frequent updates to many of them (some good, some bad) and I like to keep my options open.