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Originally Posted by chrisridd
On the other hand if you had an ereader that was designed to optimise the high quality display of text (which would include all sorts of typographical things like hanging punctuation, w&o, ligatures) instead of just a normal ereader, would that be seen as a marketable advantage?
Higher resolution screens are one way ereaders are already doing this.
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It would be a marketable advantage for me, and probably for quite a number of us here. But as said before in this thread, we are an extreme minority, and it's simply not worth it for reader makers to bother with catering to us; there's not enough money in it.
What actually might help is the appearance of Android-based readers like the Onyx Boox T68. Others could write a reader app that did all that, without having to do the full OS (like the late and lamented OpenInkpot had to do for the Hanlin V3 back in the day). You already see that happening with the T68; lots of people run Moon+ Reader and Calibre Companion on them, and don't bother with the native reader.