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Originally Posted by kacir
There are quite a few fonts that should look great on my PocketBook 360, but, somehow, they just ... don't.
I was looking forward to trying out Caecilia PNM, for example, and when I was finally able to locate it (I still have lots of friends working at DTP) I was very disappointed. I think the version of Caecilia I was testing did not have hinting information my PocketBook could use. I very much hope, Caecilia on Kindle (their default font) looks better than the version I was trying it out ;-)
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PMN Caecilia is OK but it needs a lot of breathing room. I have it in one of my Adobe bundles, and it is fine, but I do not care for it for long text. Chaparral Pro is my preferred font for text that Caecilia would normally be suited to.
You can get a somewhat decent effect in Caecilia by condensing it a little bit. Not too much, just a few percent will do. I still don't care for it much, but if someone held a gun to my head and made me choose between Caecilia and...say...Utopia, I would go with the former. I think it'd lose almost every time against Scala though.
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I wrote lots of rants about fully justified texts on Sony reader. They just do not look right. The typographical grey is way too uneven. With haphazardly executed (or missing) hyphenation, short lines (thanks to ridiculously wide margins in some books) there are very wide gaps between words, rivers and other things.
By the way, iBooks received some unpleasant reviews from typographers for exactly same reasons.
So the configurability of my PocketBook is very important. The ability to override margins, justification, font, line spacing, even hyphenation and contraction of spaces between words is crucial.
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I probably should have mentioned that I won't read anything but PDF on my Sony. I can't really stand anything else. As for iBooks, I posted a link to such a review in the Apple forum not long ago!
