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Originally Posted by Quoth
And can't be translated to languages the majority in the world use as almost all of those don't have even have as many as 4 or 5 really different fonts never mind one per character.
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Not one per character, one per NARRATOR. As I stated there are at most 8 different narrators, usually not more than 4 in a single book. The author writing a story writes it for readers in their own language. As I said earlier any translation is a form of adaptation. Just like you know the movie or TV series or stage play isn't going to be exactly 100% faithful to the original, you accept those changes because it's adapting to another media. Just like when a book is translated you have some of the same. If the text says "It's raining cats & dogs" in English the translator has to choose to either give a literal translation which won't make sense in most other languages or adapt it by its intent, like in Welsh a similar phrase translates literally as "it's raining old women & sticks" which in English doesn't make sense because it's an idiom of Welsh like Cats & Dogs falling from the sky is an idiom of English.
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Really if you want to read all kinds of everything not publishable on Amazon you either need a Kobo for eink, or a decent Android ePub app (some of those are on iPhone too), not a Kindle or Kindle App.
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But you don't... Kindle supports embedded fonts... That's what this whole thread is about... As time goes on the experience gets better & can do more things. Before you accepted it as the tradeoff for the convenience, but once upon a time it was
just text with no formatting. Then it got better & better as time goes on. Supporting custom fonts is just a step in that process.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Been there, so not interested. I also won't read stuff without punctuation or in any other fashion experimental.
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You don't have to be. Choose to read by whatever criteria is import to you, but don't assume others must use the same.
I mean that's not some fringe "experimental" thing, authors have been choosing the font they wanted since before Computers existed. I mean there were less choices but at times I'm sure a author had custom letter types made for their books. The benefit of an eReader is that if you don't like the author's choice you, as a reader can choose to override it. But doing so you are choosing to disregard the author's choice & in doing so you might loose nuances.