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Originally Posted by charleski
Apple is generally pretty slick with typography, and I'll be disappointed if they don't come up with something substantially better than Adobe's current ePub reader. The iPad is powerful enough to handle all this.
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Well, they produce things that look good from a distance, but afaik the readability leaves a lot to be desired, so their typography goes rather to waste.
Most font rendering systems work on the best visual image (systems such as Microsoft's Clear Type). Apple do things differently, preserving the font over readability concerns (For an example of this, load up Safari - even in Windows, it uses this type of font rendering).
I tend to come down very strongly on Microsoft's side on this one for screen display (for 600+ dpi printing, Apple's approach is indeed better), and it's an issue magnified on smaller screens.