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Originally Posted by davidfor
And I think that's the thing. Most people using these devices would not know what a ligature is. And if you told them, they are unlikely to care. Unfortunately, that means that a once the it is pretty good, the company is probably not going to do more without a good reason. It will be a case of diminishing returns. Improving the typesetting beyond the current level is probably a lot more expensive than it was to get to this point.
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Originally Posted by graycyn
This. You said exactly what I've been thinking. The average person doesn't care all that much. If they did, being locked into justification on Kindle in pre-KFX days and some VERY ugly word spacing for many, many years, would've put them off. It didn't.
If there was customer demand, then manufacturers would be ALL OVER making improvements to compete with each other. But the demand isn't there. It's not that people might not enjoy more pleasing typography were it offered, but they aren't out there badgering for it or complaining loudly about its lack.
There is, for instance, a CSS property for hanging-punctuation. And it has virtually no support, not in readers, not in browsers. Probably will end up deprecated. Yet I'd LOVE to see that in our e-readers. Not to mention better font support for spacing characters, you name it. So much could be done, but probably won't be.
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I can't say as I'm that interested in improved typography, but it always seems a little strange to me that Kobo puts a lot effort into rearranging the UI and so little effort into improved typography.
I would think that better typography would be more of a selling point then geegaw features. I would think the typical reader just wants to do linear reading.