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Originally Posted by Sunspark
Anyone else ever compare screens?
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Yes, I have; I own both of the devices. I bought the 300 for this reason. I mostly read epub files. Epub on Sony 300: text is well-defined and dark. Epub on Pocket Pro: text is thin and washed-out. I like my Pocket Pro, but in this respect it pales against the Sony (pun intended).
I don't blame Astak for this problem. They (and BeBook, etc) are just tweaking Jinke's firmware for their V5 models. If epubs are going to be the future of ebooks, the manufacturer needs to get this font problem sorted in their base firmware if they want the V5 models to be part of that future. Any well-done comparative review between the Pocket Pro vs the Sony's handling of epub is going to slam the Pro, unless the epub happens to contain embedded fonts. Most prospective buyers will be neither capable of, nor interested in, tweaking the CSS in their epubs to enable a darker font.
If Jinke would add to their V5 firmware an epub function similar to the V5's mobi font-change capability, and make it persistent, that'd be all they'd need to make me happy with the Pocket Pro's epub display. If that's not possible, just a change to a darker system font, which would also be used as the default font in epubs, would be a big step up from the current situation.