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Originally Posted by Fx_
About the font weight thing.
To give a better proof of concept, I decided to do it myself (not too shabby for my first epub :P).
Here is an epub, I created with font weight that varies in thickness (boldness). It's going to be nearly one week before I receive my Voyage, so I couldn't test it out (your feedback/screenshot would be greatly appreciated). 
Give it a try, hopefully you find it useful. 
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Here's a photo comparing 2 readers with this epub (although I have no idea how a shadow hack can work, seems to be totally ignored by one and reverts back to a default on the other). It was taken with overhead lights off so there wouldn't be any shadows. Which side is better? I should add that both readers had the light at 100% and tried to get the font size as close as possible, preferably so it fit on one page.
Regardless of which would give the better reading experience (and that's probably going to be subjective per person), your method of showing that the Kindle can do bold fonts is only because you're embedding the font in each and every epub. That needlessly triples the size (or more) of each epub, and that's not something I'd ever want to do. I make it a point of stripping out fonts when a publisher insists on putting them in a book because it's just wasted space on the reader. With Kobo, it will use the font you added one time to the reader and you can apply those fonts to every book on the reader, apply 1 font to one book, another font to a different book, etc. Again, a much better system for myself.