ALL-New Paperwhite announced: 300dpi E-Ink screen

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by terendel

Not really. I find that the PW3 has a bit less blue in the screen, which does change the color of the font. I wouldn't call the font darker, though, exactly. I'm having a hard time putting my finger on exactly what's different.

Here's a comparison. PW3 on the left.

Thank you.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by terendel

Here it is. It blurs a lot. Attachment 139532

Ah. No, you'll need to get it displayed 100%, not stretched to fit the screen. Hmm.. perhaps I can get it in a book format for you to try. I'll give it a go tonight.

[terendel]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Ah. No, you'll need to get it displayed 100%, not stretched to fit the screen. Hmm.. perhaps I can get it in a book format for you to try. I'll give it a go tonight.

Oops. Sorry. Not a graphics person. If you can get it to me in book format, I'll load and try again.

[Readirect]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why the heck did Amazon do something so stupid? This then makes the Kobo Glo HD a much better Reader because the advanced typography just works. If your font supports kerning you get kerning. If your font supports ligatures, you get ligatures. If you read in full justification, you get hyphens unless the CSS code says not to use hyphens. It just works where Amazon has some secret crap that needs to be added and might only work when the eBook is DRMed.

Do any of the eBooks listed come without DRM? If not, maybe the secret code and DRM are key?

FWIW, KoReader on the Kindle does the same thing. The problem is you need to jailbreak to get it and the current Kindle firmware prevents that.

It's like Amazon is going out of its way to make its products inferior to Kobo, isn't it?

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by Readirect

It's like Amazon is going out of its way to make its products inferior to Kobo, isn't it?

Competition is good. If your only criteria when selecting a reader is that it must have all the options for fonts that a Kobo has, then get yourself a Kobo. A Kindle cannot be that inferior or it would not sell any more so everybody can switch over to Kobo readers. Different features are important to different people.

[Josieb1]

I would not call Amazon products inferior to Kobo by any means.

I have ereaders by both companies, Amazon work to a different agenda taking the whole package into account, I.e cloud collections, whispersync, being able to read on multiple devices and holding personal documents in the cloud and treating them pretty much the same as a Amazon purchased book.

That is why, even with a kobo I still read on my Kindle as my preferred device.

And the one very important factor that means I can NEVER have just a Kobo is the fact that to reset it you need a paper clip or a needle. On holiday my Kobo froze, being in a holiday apartment I didn't have a paper clip but luckily I had a sewing kit so I could use needle to reset my device, but without that I would have to have gone and bought something to use. That part of kobo's leaves a lot to be desired, it froze again yesterday, so two freezes in four weeks.

First of all I've rarely had a kindle freeze on me in the four years I've owned various kindles, and if it does I can at least use the power button!