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Originally Posted by cgsmom
I think it is the (heavily patched) part that has kept me from trying Kobo. Don't get me wrong, I like my ebooks a very particular way. Just the right font, just the right size, just the right line spacing, just the right margins. Nook happens to suit that better than Kindle did. However, every time I look in the Kobo forum, all I see are discussions about patches that sound too complicated for me and I get scared away. One of these days, I swear I am going to buy a Kobo. LOL
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I can't be sure a Kobo will do everything exactly the way you want, but I'd say the chances are very good that it CAN and completely UNPATCHED.
I
don't patch my Kobos, and the adjustments you mentioned are all baked into the UI.
You can side-load your own preferred fonts or use the onboard fonts. There is a slider for font size and it's quite a range!
You can adjust the WEIGHT of
both the onboard AND side-loaded fonts. You have a slider for line-spacing, a slider for margin size. If the ebook margin is set to zero by the publisher, you can literally use your Kobo screen edge to edge, or make a wide margin,
your choice. All of this can be done without patches.
You also get a choice of text alignment. The choices are default (what the publisher set), left-aligned (ragged right), or justified.
Whether or not it will
exactly match your preferred rendering in Nook I don't know, but both devices use the Adobe RMSDK engine for reading epub, so the chances are pretty good that you'd be very, very close.
You might see some typography differences if you convert books to kepub, but that is optional, it's not something you
have to do. I read epub on my Kobo more often than not.
One caveat, and this is true for most epub readers, including Nook, is that publishers aren't always sensible about ebook formatting. Occasionally, they still do stuff like hard-code margins, or text alignment in ways that an e-reader engine can't override. If you are comfy with DRM removal and a little CSS editing, these annoyances can be overcome.
I highly recommend following your instinct and trying a Kobo out.