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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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Just the fact that you don't consider an ebook a "real book" causes me to dismiss every other thing that you've said.
Shari