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Old 12-12-2022, 04:12 AM   #1
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how kobo-device friendly are overdrive books nowadays

when I first became an e-book reader,and when it was possible to borrow overdrive books only via a PC, the readability of many books was atrocious.

books had fonts, margin, line heights etc that could not be overridden with device controls and which looked awful on a 6 inch screen.

but recently, I was helping a relative get setup with a kobo and a library card,
I ended up looking at how several popular author's books were rendered, and to my suprise they actually looked pretty good on " publishers default" font on the Kobo ( libra1)
  1. so much so that I began to wonder should I set her kobo up that way for her, rather than have it set to one of the named kobo fonts?
  2. confusingly though. same books downloaded into ADE still look awful- and I suspect its because they use lots of pretty embedded fonts that ADE can't or wont accept?
  3. is there a way to view a library loan, on a PC, and have it look like it would on kobo if borrowed directly to the kobo. i.e. a PC viewer that .. what do u call it... emulates a kobo set to publishers default.
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