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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's one thing to say that your personal preference would be to have more fonts and font settings; it's quite another to say that it "needs" to have them. Can you explain why you feel that the Kindle needs to have these things, as opposed to it being your preference that it have them? Do you think that it's not a commercially successful device without them?
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To be honest, I think the typesetting of the Kindle is very poor. I'm used to books (hardcovers) that have been typeset meticulously, including ligatures and all.
Have you ever seen a document typeset by LaTeX, and then compared it with a similar document typeset using the default styles in Word (or any other word processor for that matter)? A LaTeX document is a thing of beauty, ready to be bound in a hardcover to look professional. A Word document, at least, in the default formatting that most people seem to use, is only fit to have a staple slammed through its upper left corner.
That is the feeling I get when comparing an e-reader to a real book, but the advantages outweigh this one disadvantage.
I was hoping the Kobo readers would do a better job, but I don't know if I should try, as Kobo seems intent on using their own wacky KEPUB format, which is only badly/intermittently supported in Calibre now, because the person maintaining it has (almost) stopped doing so.