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Originally Posted by booklover6
Since Georgia is available in the Kindle app, I don't see why they couldn't put it in their ereaders. And give the bold or non bold option. Honestly, the fonts in the app could use bolding, too! It would be even easier to add an option like that to the Fires, but all these years later, no.
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I just checked and they include Georgia in their Fire Kindle app too. I think the requests for font weight control and margin control are two of the longest running requests in Kindle history. Amazon keeps thumbing their nose at us over both. Maybe if their illiterate, Silicon Valley reject programmers actually used their devices we would get a few meaningful requests addressed properly.
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Originally Posted by shamanNS
Because (unmodified) Georgia look waaay to thin on E-ink display. Just like Garamond and Charis SIL (which publishers just love to embedd... I wander if they even bothered to test books on eInk device...).
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I think most publishers, larger ones anyway, are still in the printed book era. I never heard anyone complain about the font used in a printed book. You got what they gave you. But with all the ebooks available and being sold now, the publishers still haven't caught up with the digital curve, and may not want to. At any rate, all their research from decades ago about which fonts please the most customers in printed books is totally useless with ebooks. Ten years ago when ebooks were still not very popular the publishers probably had a good excuse, but not today when they sell a large percentage of their books in electronic format.