[davidfor]

Originally Posted by rcentros

Perhaps a poor design decision in this case? Couldn't a "Publisher's Default" setting provide the choice for what the publisher wants, while allowing the space to be changed by the reader outside of the publisher's default setting? Isn't this one of the main reasons for using an eReader over a paperback book, flexibility? What's sacrosanct about one particular line space setting?

And one of the complaints about other ereaders and apps is that they don't respect the styles in the book. The problem is what to ignore, and what not to.

(I know that this can be side-stepped by converting with Calibre, but why should you have to?)

As for the weight of the sideloaded font I know that can be changed by patching. (Which I appreciate – but I still don't understand why Kobo would make these design decisions.)

A simple reason could be that there is a problem with some fonts that mean the weight changes don't work. Whether that's the actual reason, I don't know.

And one last thing. I realize that programmers and users have different nomenclatures, but, from a user's point of view, poor feature designs are nearly indistinguishable from bugs.

Yes, that's always a problem. But, hopefully the consistency of the application will tell which it is. Otherwise, report it as a bug and see what they say. Maybe enough reports will convince them a change is needed.