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JSWolf · 11-02-2015, 02:15 PM

With a Kobo, you can patch the firmware so you can use the Advanced Font Control with most side loaded TTF fonts. You can side load fonts and use Advanced Font Control to increase the weight of the fonts. This means that your bold stays bold as it also gets it's weight increased along with the regular, italic, and bold italic. Also with Kobo you get many many more font size options.

For those that have a need for larger fonts, the H2O at 6.8" gives more screen real estate plus, there is hyphenation with variable spacing between words so ePub are not going to have too many wide gaps. You don't need a different format to get hyphenation.

With the patches, you can get a Kobo to allow you to specify font sizes of your choice. With an H2O, you can specify 50 different font sizes.

11-02-2015, 02:15 PM	#27
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,172 Karma: 148951761 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	With a Kobo, you can patch the firmware so you can use the Advanced Font Control with most side loaded TTF fonts. You can side load fonts and use Advanced Font Control to increase the weight of the fonts. This means that your bold stays bold as it also gets it's weight increased along with the regular, italic, and bold italic. Also with Kobo you get many many more font size options. For those that have a need for larger fonts, the H2O at 6.8" gives more screen real estate plus, there is hyphenation with variable spacing between words so ePub are not going to have too many wide gaps. You don't need a different format to get hyphenation. With the patches, you can get a Kobo to allow you to specify font sizes of your choice. With an H2O, you can specify 50 different font sizes.