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Originally Posted by sparklemotion
I don't use my Kindles anymore since buying the Kobo H20, but I figured I'd download the new software because, well, why not. I mainly wanted to see the Bookerly font. It looks so light and thin to me. I'd get eyestrain using it, I'm sure. I don't know if it's because I'm so used to my Kobo, but the Kindle fonts look so bad to me now. I imagine it looks better on the Voyage, but on my Paperwhite it's really thin and washed out.
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Ironically Bookerly looks great on a Kobo because the Kobo software allows the font to be made heavier.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I never said needing a new format for the enhanced typesetting is a bug. I have said it's a rather stupid move by Amazon when it's not needed at all and if it was done properly, all KF8 eBooks could have had the use of the advanced typesetting.
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A new file format to introduce these (not so) new typographical features is totally unnecessary. The purpose of introducing the new file format is to encode books and to increase drm. i.e. more Amazon shutdown. It remains to be seen how effective it will be in that regard, but for now it appears to be working well, but it's early days.