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Originally Posted by JSWolf
In the photos, the Kobo looks better. The nook looks more washed out.
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Originally Posted by shalym
Wow...maybe it's just the lighting, but I can't get past how much better the contrast is on the Kobo.
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I think it was the light source. The lamp was right above the Nook. But to be fair it's likely also due to the Nook's flush screen vs the Kobo's sunken screen? In person, the Kobo
is sharper than the Nook, but the difference isn't as pronounced as my photo makes it look.
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Originally Posted by MGlitch
...all the wasted space on the nook makes me cry. Less information is given on the nook yet the Kobo gives you more of the main text on the screen resulting in few page turns.
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Partly what you're seeing is kepub disrespecting CSS. Kobo always pushes the chapter headings up to the top of the screen. In this book, it doesn't look so bad. In others, with decorations around the chapter headings for instance, it looks bad.
On a normal page, the Kobo shows 23 lines of text and the Nook shows 22. But to get Kobo to show those 23 lines, I had to hack it to shrink the header and hide the footer.
Out of the box, Kobo can be pretty wasteful.
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I’ll let Jon talk about the bezels if he’s inclined to comment further on the comparison, but they really do make the nook look bulky.
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I like the small size of the Clara, but to be honest, the Nook is more comfortable to hold. Maybe I just have large hands. But I appreciate the larger bezels and I like the pebbling on it.
One other thing is I think the Nook's layout is better. Even though the lines of text are the same, there's a large gap between 'Laws'' and 'place' on the second line. Those weird gaps show up often on the Kobo. Sometimes multiple times in the same sentence.
I've attached another photo*. This is text from a regular, in chapter page. Both readers have the front light cranked to 100%, both running Georgia. Better lighting conditions.
What I'm looking at here is the italicized paragraph, particularly the second line. Kepub spacing is a mess.
I'm not even saying Nook is better. Maybe Kobo's ePub renderer is just as good as Nook's. But I'm using Kobo's custom format on their device. They really should work on that thing.
*My Pixel tends to fisheye when I get too close to something, so if you see weirdness there, it's the camera, not either device. It also looks like the right hand edge of the photo started swimming out of focus. Sorry. I did the best with the tools I have available
