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Originally Posted by roger64
For improving the readability, out of increasing the font-size, there may be other tries:
1 - increasing line-height helps (but yours seems fine)
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But not too much. I know I like the line-height closer than a lot of people, but I think an inbetween szie might do. Smaller then what the Kindle uses.
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2 - boldening a font. This deserves some comments:
Some software (FontForge among others) allow you a bolden slightly the font. From my short experience, it works sometimes with ttf fonts, hardly with otf. I tried with some e-text fonts and totally failed. When this works, this can bring a big improvement.
But then, it seems you can't side-load your fonts on a non-jailbroken Kindle. Maybe it would be possible to modify some fonts already supplied by the system. No experience yet with this.
Another possibility to circumvent this limitation would be to embed your favourite reading font in your books. But you can edit only AZW3 and not KFX, so you would have to hyphenate them in a separate process. Not undoable but a lot of work.
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Yes, you can up the weight of a given font family and then embed it. But then you have to do this for most fonts for use on an eInk screen. With a Kobo Reader, you can patch the firmware to enable the advanced font control so you can use the weight to what you want. You can also side load fonts on a Kobo. No need to jailbreak to have the fonts you want to use. You can even reference the side loaded fonts You can even reference them from the CSS of the ePub without having to put them in the ePub.
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3. - using a real bold font. I don't like it but it's a matter of choice.
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Sometimes a bold font is used because it's that or the underweight font.
What also helps is hyphens. Large gaps can be off-putting to some.