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Originally Posted by elainevdw
Pilot Bob, thanks for the ideas -- I do use Firefox, but I'll keep an eye out for that bug getting fixed. Will save my monitor from getting tons of little post-it notes with keyboard shortcuts taped to it.
Mr. Goodbar -- Do the iLiad and Sony have font support? I work at a design firm, so I could go on alllll day about fonts! I'm actually a bit nervous about what the reading experience will be like when my Kindle arrives, because I really do notice and appreciate the neat fonts they're using in books lately. I keep repeating to myself, "It's the words that matter, not the fonts!"  Again, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that the people they interviewed for the videos on the sales page for Kindle are right; Neil Gaiman said that he was able to dive into the Kindle like he would any other book. But then again, maybe he's never used a Sony reader or the iLiad! |
I think it's one of those personal things that some people think about and others don't. From the Sony's perspective you can embed fonts into the file, but it greatly slows down the page turns. There is a how to in this section that explains how to swap out the fonts on the Sony for whatever font you would like to use while still maintaining the fast page turns.
Mobipocket on the iLiad is stuck with just one terrible font, but I convert everything to a pdf for reading on the iLiad and then I can use whatever fonts I want. I find the iLiad to be the easiest one to read, but it has other drawbacks.
All the current e-ink devices seem to have different tradeoffs. You just need to look at those tradeoffs and see which ones matter to you and which ones don't.
Also, if memory serves me correctly I think you can install whatever fonts you want on the cybook and change them on the fly. It may be the most flexible in that regard, but you may want to check the cybook forum to validate that.