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Old 04-08-2015, 09:15 PM   #129
rcentros
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
The speed of page turns and other things is going to be affected by how much time and memory is used by other things.

Features such as typeface kerning, automatic hyphenation, adjustable typeface weight and sharpness all require time and memory during the rendering process. Even if the rendering is done in advance and the results buffered, they still take extra memory which impacts on the speed of other things.
Honestly, the sharpest, best defined font I have on all my eReaders is the Constantia add-on font on my Kindle Touch. I thought I would like Glo's ability to adjust fonts, but no matter how much fiddling I do, I can't get the built-in fonts on the Glo to match the Constantia font on the Kindle Touch.

That said, it's all relative. The Glo's fonts are quite readable, I just thought they would be a little sharper and not quite as faded out. Without the "Glo" light turned on, the screen is "muddier" than the non-lit Kindle Touch's so, when reading on the Glo, I pretty much have to use the light -- even when the room is brightly lit up.
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