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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Kindle's are already among the dumbest e-readers around. The margin settings are useless, they only have six fonts, and the sizes below 3 or above 6 are almost unusable, except for people with stellar eyesight or the near-blind ones. If you need a size bigger than 6, you have a serious problem...
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Absolutely agree on this. The only two font sizes I use are 3 and 4 -- the one is just a little too small for me and the other is too big. So, depending on the lighting, I'll go back and forth. I wish there was something in the middle of these two sizes. I don't understand the tiny fonts -- but I actually know people who use those fonts -- but the huge fonts? Who wants two or three words per page? I totally don't get those. And those wide, and wider margins? Why?
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
However, at the same time, the Kindle's are also the ones with that have the least software problems, and are among the best (maybe the best) supported by Calibre; you can set your own page counts, conversion to AZW is about perfect, and all of the Kindle's features work without any jacking around.
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That's been my experience also.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That cannot be said for Kobo's "we want our own format toohoo!" KEPUB. Both the EPUB and KEPUB renderers have one or more problems that I don't care for; either some features of the reader don't work (EPUB), or it renders in a way I don't like, wasting space in headers and footers (KEPUB).
In the end, if I compare e-readers, the Kindle is the best of the worst. The really good readers with loads of options are only available for tablets, which is the reason why I'd really *REALLY* like an Android e-ink tablet.
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My experience with Nook and its book formatting was good -- until I started downloading public domain books. Some were fine -- some had huge margins or fonts, etc. Calibre has helped me out a lot here also. (Though I did read one of these books on my Sony T2 and used the Crop feature -- which worked great.) One of my ePub issues (and Mobi) are fiction books with spaces between paragraphs. Really annoying when there are a lot of short dialogue paragraphs. Calibre is great at fixing those books ...
Sorry to ramble. Final point. Kindles are simple and, as far as I can tell, most of the folks who use e-Ink eReaders in the U.S. like them that way.