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Originally Posted by Braid
That's pretty unusual... I've never heard of anyone voluntarily converting files to PDF. Oh well, if you like to read that way, sweet!
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I did that too, for my Sony and BeBook Mini.
You couldn't turn off that highly annoying page number in the margin when reading EPUB on the Mini (it's some "feature", which I never understood...) and MOBI didn't have the right font-size for me (size x was too small, size x+1 was too big). So, I set up a system where I can tranform HTML into epub, mobi and PDF (using LaTeX). It's completely made up so it can be easily read on a 5" screen. Then I got the Sony, whose epub reader was better, but still lacking in margin and font settings, and those PDF's looked still good (even though they were made for a 5" screen, the 6" of the Sony worked as well).
I only started using the epubs after I got my H2O. I finally could set the margin I wanted, with the font-size I wanted.
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Originally Posted by Braid
The main weakness of Kindle devices when compared with Kobo devices is the overall appearance and layout of text. Kobo devices, for some reason, just lay out text in a prettier way, in my opinion. The justification is more consistent. The use of hyphenation is much better - on my Kindle I quite frequently see words cut up in awkward, unnatural places, and words spaced miles apart in order to fill the line, whereas on my H2O and Aura One I very rarely see this. I also prefer the default fonts on my Kobo devices. Maybe these things are what Kindles sacrifice in order to turn pages and open books that little bit quicker.
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And that weakness of Kindle devices is why Kobo devices will always win for me. I can get used to a slower touch screen reaction, but if the page layout is not correct, I just can't get into the book... (I can really get bothered by a huge margin, or letters that are too close or too far from each other).