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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Amazon can say that their typography is better when they allow side-loaded fonts, font weight/sharpness tweaking and more granular control over font sizes, page margins and line spacing. Until that happens they will always be a distant second as far as typography goes in the eyes of the discerning reader.
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Kobo and Kindle have different approaches right now. Kobo's RMSDK renders epub files as is. Therefore quality of typography is direcly depended on the quality of the epub. Kindle, on the other hand, much more independent of the source file.
An argument could be made that this is a better way to do things. I prefer Kobo, but I am willing to fix things. When you are willing to tinker, you can get anything better than a Kobo type-wise. But the main goal of typography is to be invisible, not offering a plethora of choices like 50 sizes and 15 margin settings. Therefore, I believe Kindle right now offers better typography as a whole. Typography should just work, you should not even think about it.
This can be discussed, of course. But I consider myself a discerning readers who is very much concerned about type as people in MR probably noticed. This is my view. You are practically telling me I don't know about typography here and I find this insulting.
Amazon has a real case here. It should not be discarded that easily.