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Originally Posted by Rizla
Headers are clear from their size and position on the page. I won't miss anything there by defaulting to bold. Much better to include an option to increase default font weight for those that want it.
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Ironically to this conversation, the only time I've failed to distinguish bold text is when I'm reading with Caecilia font. The difference of bold text with that font is very subtle, but it's also one of only two fonts on Kindle (the other being Hevetica, and maybe Palantino.) that is comfortable to read on e-ink at smaller size without some way of forcing darker font rendering, (for me at least, but I have the benefit of doing several side by side comparisons.)
Bold text remains very distinctly bold when using Kobo font weight adjustment, or one of the community e-ink enhanced fonts, (either embedded, or sideloaded in a Jailbroken Kindle as we used to be able to to do before Amazon decided to break that useful functionality out of spite.)
And if I sound like I'm drumming on a dead horse, I apologize. It's just that Bookerly looks *amazing* when it's rendered a little darker. Stylish, but very easy to read at small text sizes. It does irritate me that the Kindle comes so close to being the all around best reader, but snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like this.