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Old 05-10-2015, 10:38 AM   #990
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Originally Posted by Star56 View Post
Frankly that is an absurd review. If he cannot distinguish the original paperwhite OR the PW2 from the Glo HD screen then he is either
1. Lying 2. Got a wacky defective Glo HD 3. Is pulling our leg.

The difference in resolution and readability between the PW units and the Glo HD is so obvious that this opinion is not credible and silly.
Or perhaps, as I wrote in the post, there are problems with the software?

I might not be able to convince you that I really can't see the difference but I can prove that Kobo's software is buggy.

I took a couple screenshots this morning. The books have all the same settings, same Kobo Nickel font, etc, and yet only the kepub was displayed correctly. The sideloaded ebook was shown with the wrong justification and wrong line spacing.

http://the-digital-reader.com/wp-con...screen_010.png

http://the-digital-reader.com/wp-con...screen_011.png

Since we can clearly show that the formatting is wrong, and since we know that kepubs turn the page faster than sideloaded ebooks, are you really that certain that Kobo didn't also muck up the font rendering on sideloaded ebooks?

I think they got their ebook engine working great in time for launch, and are still working on the one for sideloaded ebooks.

And that's why I recommended waiting for Kobo to fix the software.
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