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Originally Posted by shalym
Since I only read using sans serif fonts, I wouldn't see any ligatures even if the book was formatted to use them. I wonder if this is also true on the Kobo? Of course, on the Kobo, I only read in Kepub format, so I wouldn't see them there, either.
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It's not the book that is formatted to use ligatures (well, maybe it is on the Kindle. They do weird things there). Ligatures is a combination of the layout engine and the font being used.
The font needs to include ligatures and the engine has to be able to display them.
So on Kobo, kepubs have ligatures turned off by default. You can turn on ligatures using a patch.
Even if you enable ligatures, the font you use needs to include them. Georgia on my Nook includes ligatures. Georgia on the Kobo is a smaller subset and it does not include ligatures.
Literata Book and Bookerly both include various ligatures.