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Originally Posted by davidfor
Why? I remember the two Japanese fonts seemed to cause problems when first introduced, but, I haven't noticed any recently. As to the other two, I can understand not wanting to use them, but "don't dare use them" seems a bit harsh.
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It is the patches I don't dare use. And since I sideloaded 17 fonts, eliminating 4 I never use would mean one less arrow down when choosing a font.
It might seem too much, but every book has its font of choice.
For instance some of my favorite fonts have an
β I don't care for, so for German I choose Liberation Serif, or Candara for a wide Sans Serif, or Arsenal for a narrow type (for poetry with long lines).
For the Calibre Catalogs, which I use a lot, I like a neither narrow nor wide sans serif, with good balance between regular/italic/bold, so usually Noto Sans or Ubuntu.
More generally, I read many books in parallel, fiction classical or genre, non-fiction on a variety of subjects, and poetry with more or less long lines, and I like to adapt the font to the book.
Plus when I used one font for long over many books, before I added enough to have a good choice, I got tired of it. This is the pleasure of Kobos: adapting the typography to the book like paper books do.
The extra bonus of ereaders respective to paper for my problem eyes is I can adapt the font and its thickness to how my eyes feel and the light level: reading at night means tired eyes and very low light, and I can change to a wider font as well as increasing the thickness and/or the size. So for one book the details of the font vary with the light.
I have many mass market paperbacks I can't read any more: characters too small and fuzzy, yellowing paper.