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Originally Posted by Claude_C
I'm a cool 58 years old.
Sometimes, there's no need to debate with people who will never change their minds, me included. 
If you buy a Kobo, you must patch it to hell and beyond so the ebooks can look a bit OK. Oh dear... What's to argue?  Buy another ereader for God sake! |
Oddly, the only patch I use on my Kobo ereaders is the one making the base font size in epub and kepub match. I get line height, font weight, margins, etc. out of the box. So I would disagree with your "must patch it to hell and beyond" comment.
I do edit most of my ebooks but that is due to too many ebook creators failing to learn from the hundreds of years of history involved in creating printed books and then realizing and allowing for the differences between an ebook and a printed book. Too many of those creators still seem stuck in the ransom letter days of font usage seen with the early Macintosh computers. I started down that road with my original Kobo when I realized that errors in the CSS caused RMSDK to discard the entire stylesheet. Since then, I have learned that feeding ePubs that do not cause FlightCrew and epubcheck to toss screenfuls of error messages is the best ways to make my reading experience more enjoyable.
However since you think that I should purchase another ereader, please suggest one that will let me borrow ebooks from my local library using Overdrive, have the flexibility in managing metadata using calibre, allow me to fetch reading status, percentage, etc. to populate my reading status columns in calibre and allow me to install the firmware revision of my choice without having to root/jailbreak the device.
I have compared reading ebooks on my Kindle Paperwhite, several other brands of ereader and many generations of Kobo going back to the Kobo original. I prefer the Kobo's flexibility in setting margins (what idiot at Lab126 decided that chewing up 1.5cm of a 9cm wide screen at the minimum margin settings was a "Good Idea"?), font sizes, font weight, etc.