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Originally Posted by phunnylinguist
One further question if I may? One main complaint of epub or for that matter even pdfs on a Nook HD is the exceptionally displeasing experience if a title contains graphics but especially maps. There seems to be no way to expand or may them larger and thus more readable. I'd read that the Kobos I've been looking at (Glo, Aura) have a pinch-to-zoom feature. If this is indeed the case it would be a huge plus in device consideration, if it indeed functions as it is described, that is. Is this a fantasy or false claim, or an actual for-real functioning feature? What's been your experience with it?
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If you purchase the ebooks from Kobo in their variant on the epub format, you can select an image and zoom/rotate it. For the most part, I've found it a fairly useless feature since most of the images in ebooks are pretty low resolution. On the 6 inch Aura, pinch to zoom works on PDF and Kobo epubs but I'm not fond of PDFs on my Kobos. Even on my iPad, I keep wanting a bigger screen since most of my PDFs are tech manuals. The ones where the dead tree versions have those lovely foldout diagrams that are about A2 size. For other Kobo ereaders, there was a kernel patch to allow two finger light control and pinch to zoom on IR touch Kobos. I tested it but never made much use of it though it has been updated for firmware 3.8.0.