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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
The Kobo Glo HD I used for a year did have more settings etc. But I ended up rarely use most of them. For flat out reading, it was no better or worse than most of the front lit Kindles I've owned.
When my vision issues make reading more of a challenge, a wider line spacing works for me more effectively than using a larger font. More white space=better contrast, at least for me.
Most of my "complaints" about e-readers stem from poor formatting of the book itself. It's not a device problem, unless devices could be developed to fix those issues with a book already on the device. Mostly I'm talking about huge white spaces between chapters or paragraphs, or off balanced margins, OCR that hasn't been proofread, huge drop caps, etc.
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I have both the newest Kobo and the newest Kindle. Yes, Kobo has more settings and you can patch it to customize it even more. I patch my Kobo rather heavily and it's fun, but the reading experience itself is indeed not that much different from the Kindle (unless you prefer ultra-narrow margins and line-height, which I don't). I can read either on my Kobo or on my Kindles and be completely satisfied.
As to poor formatting, I can't stand that at all and fix all my ebooks in the Calibre editor, else I would not be able to read many of them due to extreme levels of irritation
. It's bothersome, but at least it can be done and the results are worth the fuss.