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One thing I like about Kobo vs Kindle is the fact that with Kobo, I get better typesetting. It's not just about ligatures, kerning, and hyphenation. But also about embedded fonts. Wind in the Willow is an excellent example. It uses some nice embedded fonts and that includes the character used for scene breaks. On my Kobo I can have this displayed and still use my choice of body font. On a Kindle, if I want to be able to see the embedded fonts, I end up with a sans-serif font for the body font. This makes reading this book a poor experience on a Kindle. On a Kobo, the reading experience is very good.
Why is it that Amazon has made fonts an all or nothing experience? I've seen some eBooks where a handwriting font was used for letters in the eBook. On a Kindle, again, all or nothing. On a Kobo, it works well as you don't have an all or nothing experience.
The other thing I don't like about a Kindle is that to get typesetting, you need to be using KFX. Amazon with KFX is lying to users. If the publisher doesn't want DRM, then there should not be any DRM. Yet with KFX, there is DRM. The typesetting that KFX does could have been done with KF8. All it would have taken is the KF8 renderer to handle it.
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