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Originally Posted by Barty
I'm mildly bitter, with a dash of pique.
I want to be able to adjust the font weight. They want to keep the UI simple, stupid. I want to side load my own fonts. They don't want the bother and the bugs. And, like the chef that looks at you askance when you ask for table salt, they think nobody should need to mess with their carefully designed fonts, anyway.
I want something a little bigger because I use largish font size and it'd be nice to have more lines on one screen. They're like, MORE? You want MORE?!?!
Just buy something else, right? The problem is the alternatives are not great. Kobo does not have TTS either. Their software seems buggier. They don't sell in any U.S. stores. (But I'm inching closer to buying a kobo.) The android based e-ink readers look pretty kludgy and the displays are not quite as good. Amazon has the best e-ink displays and probably will continue to. They have tremendous advantage in procuring the best e-ink screens and putting them to best use given their market share and R&D war chest. Then, there is liquavista looming on the horizon.
Oh well, I'll just have more money for e-books, I guess.
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I don't think you're going to see an e-ink reader which offers TTS. It's not exactly a feature to write home about on the tablets I've seen it on which will be able to do it better.
Every e-reader has some bugs in their software, but at least Kobo doesn't care about people using third party mods. I wouldn't say the openly encourage it, but to the best of my knowledge they have not blocked any mods, and certainly haven't actively prevented people from tweaking their device.
Sideloaded fonts? Done.
Adjust the weight of your font? Done, though fonts you add will require a tweak to allow for this
Larger screen? Done, get the H2O.
Everything has bugs, the benefit of Kobo over Amazon is that Kobo doesn't seem to mind about third party mods.
Yes it's less than 300 DPI but it's a larger screen with similar DPI. Which basically makes it a wash overall.
I'll give you that not having a US store presence is a pain, I like seeing and holding a device before I buy it. But I pulled the trigger on an H2O and I've been really happy with it.