Quote:
Originally Posted by meeera
I spent quite a long period with an Aura HD recently (setting up and training a relative) and I found the fonts crisp, black and very gorgeous. The font weight adjustment feature is something I now wonder how I ever lived without. (And yes it works on sideloaded books.) If you are just looking at an unmodified Avenir Next font or something, it is going to appear "grey" because of the thinness of that particular font. But you don't have to use that font, and if you do, you can adjust its weight to suit.
I know next to nothing about footnote management, sorry (I mostly read novels on my Kobo; complex nonfiction with images and such goes onto the iPad Mini).
|
Ah, okay. The advanced font options don't work on sideloads on my Touch so that was why I asked. That was really helpful, thank you
Quote:
Originally Posted by davidfor
There are two answers to that.
If you are sideloading epubs, the footnotes will simply be links to somewhere else in the book. Pressing on the footnote will to take you to it. There will be a "Previous location" link in the bottom menu to go back.
Kobo ePubs, or kepubs, present the start of the footnote in a popup. If you need to see more, one of the buttons takes you to the location the footnote is in the book and then it works as above. Or if the fill note is displayed, you can press cancel to return to the book. Books can be sideloaded as kepubs using calibre and the KoboTouchExtended driver.
|
Thanks, this is really useful. It probably won't crop up that often as I don't read much academic non-fiction on my ereader at present anyway, but I was trying to read a sideloaded copy to
The Colour of Magic on my Touch recently and the footnotes just didn't work at all, which was why I was asking!
I think I'm still leaning towards the PW2 but I'm not sure. I know that it's probably genuinely going to come down to personal preference but it's a pretty close one. I do think, though, that it's possibly not worth the extra £40 for the Aura HD for what I'll be using it for.