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Old 01-08-2018, 01:39 PM   #52
rcentros
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Have you ever looked into a Kobo Glo or Aura? They can be had fairly cheap on Amazon (the Aura is cheaper than the Glo for some reason). You can install any font you would like fairly painlessly and not have to embed the font in the book.
I owned a Kobo Glo for a while. I don't know if I really tried it much without the front-light, but my eyes couldn't get used to its "glo." I have checked into the Aura (you've mentioned it before) but I'm leery of the murkiness of screen when not using the light. It seems like all the front-lit eReaders that I've seen have the "murky" factor to some degree when the light is off.

I do currently have a bid on a Kobo Touch, however. Wouldn't I be able to add fonts to a Touch also?

As for embedding fonts, it's pretty simple in Calibre (I didn't realize how simple). I've tested it on a few Feedbook ePubs I've downloaded and it takes about a minute, maybe 30 seconds. Mostly, however, I would use it for Kindle books (Gutenberg reprints that have been cleaned up and well-formatted, so it's worth paying what little they charge for them). These will have to be converted for ePub anyhow, so there's no added work involved at all when embedding fonts.
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