It's posts like these that keep us going.
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Originally Posted by EldRick
Got it this morning. Played with it for a few hours. I like the Nook Touch lots better:
- The touchscreen is very sluggish, and rarely picks up my first tap. Paging becomes an exercise in annoyance.
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We have alleviated some of these issues in 1.9.4. Working on making the touch even better every day.
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- The horrible default (and system) serif font, Georgia, is nearly unreadable on this small screen. It is a shaded font, with varying stroke widths, and the low-res rendering on an e-ink screen gives blotchy-looking text, where the letters and serifs are very poorly rendered. I don't even consider reading books in san-serif fonts.
I've read over a hundred books on Kindle, and a half-dozen on the Nook Touch, and I've never failed to find a comfortable combination of font, line spacing, and margins, but the Kobo Touch defeated me - I can't stand to read on it.
- The default margin is flush against the screen edges. Since I remove publishers' margins with calibre and depend on the ereader to set a narrow margin, this is annoying, since the text near the edges is shadowed by the bezel.
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New font / reading controls added in v1.9.5
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- It is VERY slow in some cases. In resetting to factory defaults (to return it), it took me five tries to get it to actually respond to tapping the Reset button.
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I've done quite a few factory resets but have not seen this behaviour. I'll make sure the team looks at it and if there's a fix needed you can bet it will be in an update coming soon.
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- The hardware buttons on the Nook are very useful for reading single-handed.
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I have to say I'm all about the touch screen personally, but I can understand the allure of the hardware buttons.