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It appears that there are some who prefer to pay $99, then just complain a lot.
The use of distinctive fonts can make for a nicer presentation, and is a good thing
for a reader to support, but even on desktops, fonts can use up memory. The readers
have much less memory to spare.
Memory and its support circuitry, take up space, add weight, generate heat, cost money, and most importantly consume power. Things you want to consider the trade off values of, for a very compact battery powered device you want to market at the
lowest price point. I think the JBL has the tradeoffs just about right, for now.
At some point, memory tech. and other components (the cpu for sure) will advance in
a direction that a "better"/improved JBL could be made, hopefully without loosing the
balance of features that makes it so handy now.
I can have any font I want on my Netbook; but it won't fit in my pocket. I can have
almost as many on my PDA, and it will fit in my pocket but it has a smaller screen and
I couldn't get >20hours of reading time out of it.
For something I can pick up off the night stand, turn on and start reading right back
where I left off; the JBL has it just right, IMHO.
Luck;
Ken
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