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Originally Posted by GERGE
Typography is very important for me but I learned not to take it granted with an ereader.
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PocketBook Touch Lux 2 recently entered my country,
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But I won't buy it if it has bad typography. So, does it?
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There are MANY things that PocketBook excels at, but typography is almost non-existent, just like with the vast majority of e-ink readers out there.
As previous posters stated, there are several programs that can be used to read an epub file. One of them is official app from Adobe that displays all the formatting as set by publisher. But not nice things like ligatures or kerning (I think. I do not use it, I can't stand it.). The other program that can be used to display epubs and is used to display most of the e-book formats is fbreader. It used to be highly configurable, which made the lack or real typography bearable for me. In recent versions of firmware (4.xy) much of this configurability is broken (you can't, for example set margins or left justification for many epub books) and the 5.xy firmware is downright catastrophic.
Fortunately you can install Coolreader to devices with firmware 4.4, and that makes my live bearable.
You can set fonts, it has hyphenation, you can set margins and justification.
With small margins (so you can fit longer lines on the screen, so you have enough words per line), right font setting, left justification (so there are not un-even spaces between words on adjacent lines) and hyphenations the books are bearable.
If you look for a real typography, just use your own pdf file formatted by a good typesetting program. You have to format pdf exactly for the physical screen size and not for A4 or Letter. Then you will have real typography, but you will be unable to set your own font size during the reading. And, of course, you will have to strip drm and do your own conversion for every single book you want to read.