[brewt]

Man, I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Built me an epub out of Indesign with a dozen, not wait, 46 serifed fonts embedded in it. Poorly formatted, to boot

Embedding the fonts is the one thing Indesign does transparently (hyperlinks are troublesome, tho). Picked IDcs4 so it would encrypt the fonts - less trouble for me, you know.

The question was "Does it make a significant enough difference to warrant the trouble it takes?" The Bride didn't think so; keyword "trouble" bothered her.

I had thought I had seen ADE adding weight to the embedded fonts in other endeavors, and it looks like it still does. Garamond and Minion don't seem as lithe as I think they should: just fine, though, in Calibre and Epubreader/Firefox. A Reader doesn't have quite the weight added that ADE does, but it's still heavier (at least, to my eye). I still like Minion.

If it matters, the Dutch801 Rm BT is the default built-in font on Sony Readers.

-bjc

Revised 7/14/10 - latest embedded font test, mangled a bit harder than earlier editions, more fonts. I still have concerns that different reading systems handle the font embedding thing rather drastically differently. Does the embedment show up on a real nook, for example. And, has anyone started a css-implementation differences chart for the different devices?
-bjc