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Originally Posted by ps67
If You want to see on Your Kobo the effect of ligatures read a Kepub (no ligatures) and a Epub (ligatures) using for example the embedded font Caecilia or Amasis and checking fi ffi fl ecc. To see better the difference You can increment the size of the font.
IMHO Amasis is much better with ligatures but can be read also without them while Caecilia without ligatures is very bad.
Not all fonts have ligatures, I could be wrong but as I can check from what I see Gill Sans has no ligatures.
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Ok...if it's true that Gill Sans has no ligatures, and kepub has no ligatures, then I have no idea what I'm looking at. I can say that from pdurrant's post, I truly dislike the ligatured fi combination, because it completely eliminates the dot over the eye.
I also have to say, though, that since I have never noticed ligatures (or the lack thereof) in 50 years of reading, they don't make any difference in the level of enjoyment I have when reading a book.
Shari