I made a topic about this but it was suggested I ask here.
You can read the long explanation of my request here, but the short of it is that many fonts render much better with hinting disabled. However, even if the font has no hinting instructions, Kobo forces autohinting.
I'd love if there was a patch to disable autohinting 
Here’s an example:
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Originally Posted by mistle
Notice how the "u" raises up above the top of the neighboring "o" and "s". The cross on the "t" and "f" do the same.
Along the bottom, the "f" and "h" appear to stick out lower. This is actually an optical illusion caused by the bad autohinting, where any of the letters with rounded bottoms are pixel-perfectly aligned to the bottom line. Whereas with no hints, they stick out ever so slightly below, which is the correct way to align rounded characters. To the human eye it appears correct. This is how printed text in a book behaves.
You can also see it messed up the serifs a little, have a look at how it flattens out the serif on the left stem of the "u", and the bottoms of "h" and "f". |