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Originally Posted by tiltowait
It's purely a matter of personal preference, but I prefer to have the light a bit dimmer than the ambient light of the room. I find it makes the screen look more like real paper that way, but unfortunately, it accentuates the shadows.
I was curious and did some close-up comparisons between my GL3 and KA1. I found that the KA1 text looks just as dark as the Nook ... with the light off. I've attached some images to this post. The first is the Kobo; the second, the Nook.
Also of note is that both fonts are rendering Georgia, yet they look different. Kobo's version is taller; note how narrow the letter 'o' is compared to the Nook.
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One weird thing: The text in your Nook picture looked gritty and jagged. I'm pretty sure that's just from the picture as I haven't seen the same on my actual GL3.
Wolf should be here in about thirty seconds to tell you the Nooks are garbage at rendering fonts.
Was the Kobo book ePub or kepub?
Assuming the book was kepub (and you have more time than you know what to do with) it might be interesting to upload the same book as an ePub on both devices and compare the fonts. Kobo uses different engines for kepub vs. ePub and fonts are rendered differently. I'm not sure which renders the fonts more accurately though.