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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Lots of Mobilereaders think it is an advantage for kobo because the kobo offers more choice to suit any taste which Amazon doesn't. It's well and good if one likes Amazon's offered choices, but if one doesn't then tough luck. Thin fonts on the kobo can also be fixed at the same font size instead of blowing them up as on the kindle, the latter being such a kludgy solution to a problem that wouldn't exist to begin with if Amazon believed in offering basic font freedom.
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I see what you are saying, but for me this is tempered by the fact that Amazon gives you better fonts out of the box and they render more attractively at the default settings. I like both Bookerly and Palatino as default choices. For Kobo, maybe Amasis comes closest to acceptable for me, but none of the choices are all that good looking (which is weird because I think Amasis looks great on a Sony). I don't know what Kobo were thinking with Nickel.
Then again, I am the kind of person who embeds fonts so that I get a look that matches the subject matter better and so I don't have every book with the same "feel"
In any case, like I said, I've never seen a high DPI Kobo so maybe these are corrected or mitigated on a good screen.