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Old 05-17-2015, 10:15 AM   #1086
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Originally Posted by s4nder View Post
Interesting. I was wondering why I hadn't noticed any ligatures when epubs supposedly support them. Now that you mention it, the lack of kerning in Georgia looks obvious as well. I've moved to Amasis and can only shake my head at the wonder and chaos that is Kobo software.

What do you know about typography on Kindles? Baskerville is a nice font that could work well with hyphenation added in by Calibre addons but I don't know if kerning or ligatures are supported.
As a Kobo reader,Amasis is the best, I convert all my books with Calibre and put Amasis on .
I wish there was a patch where Georgia (and other fonts) can be taken out of the reader (or books) and replace it by default with the Amasis font without converting them first, so much books have fonts build in that are terrible for a reader.
So much ebook makers that want to have the ebook looks exactly the same with build in fonts and marges which can't be overrided without editing the book.
(And you always notice that when you are reading in a place without a computer )

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