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Everybody has different things they care about when it comes to typography and layout. For me, the kerning, hyphenation, and spacing improvements in KFX are pretty big. I also like that I can choose justified or ragged right. https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/viqxjj/heres_the_fo...
Maybe I'm missing something, but those all sound like things that are display layer and shouldn't be dependent on KFX to be able to accomplish. I do know that that you can run preprocessing on epubs to adjust some of the layouting to your preference. The rest should just be determined by the reader application you are using and any shortfall in customization of those aspects would be addressed by improvements to that…
> those all sound like things that are display layer and shouldn't be dependent on KFX to be able to accomplish
Seems like that's how it should work, but it doesn't. Maybe that's by design or maybe it's fallout from poor choices Amazon made earlier in Kindle history. I really don't know.
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#665I wish they would do a bigger size kindle scribe. I read pdfs all day on my scribe, and often I wish the screen was bigger so the font size would be large.
How suitable is 10" for PDF reading? Is the font too small? Do various e-readers allow PDF content to reflow? I have been considering Boox Air 3C. PDFs are important for me. Thanks.
It works fine I would say. In the absence of a bigger screen with proportional DPI (kindle scribe is 300 which is one of the highest in terms of screen size), kindle scribe is one of the better options still IMO.
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#667I hope they’re not abandoning page turn buttons for good, like my Oasis has — the only reason I bought the Oasis. Touch screens are just not a good reading experience, for me.
Physical page buttons have a small UX disadvantage in that your finger must be located at the button when its time to turn the page. Unlike the soft method where you gently tap screen with finger or pen, and you're not limited to one activation location. So, more energy required with the physical button. I was disappointed at first the Scribe didn't have buttons, but now I don't care.
If any device with physical buttons didn't also support screen touch as well, this would be an issue, but that's not the case; every competitor device with buttons also fully supports screen touch, so you get both!
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You should check out the PocketBook Era. It's what I moved to from the Kindle Oasis and I've really enjoyed it. The device isn't as svelte as the Oasis since it isn't subsidized by Amazon, but has an assymetric design and even more physical buttons which you can fully customize the control scheme. Also like the Oasis it gets amazing battery life with it's light weight OS compared to the Android based e-readers. The P…
Two things that are stopping me from buying a PocketBook: 1. Android (privacy...) 2. No light sensor to automatically adjust screen brightness to surroundings (i currently have the Kindle Oasis 3, jailbroken, running KOreader.)
If I understand your first point correctly, then I have great news. I guess my wording could have been more clear, but PocketBook devices do NOT run Android.
As for the second, if that is a requirement then at least the Era doesn't have an ambient light sensor. I don't have any issue without it because I just have the front light off entirely by default since it is e-ink. Obviously if I need to use it in the dark I turn it on, but that is easy without having to navigate a screen I can't see since you can configure a hardware shortcut to toggle the front light (it is set to long press on the home button by default). While it does support automatic screen brightness and temperature (individually toggled), these are driven by a schedule based on the set timezones.
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Just their standard one: https://shop.boox.com/products/onyx-boox-b-t-remoter?variant... It's great for page flips, turning the backlight on and off, opening the top menu. Sadly it doesn't work for turning power off and on, but I suspect that can be fixed.
Can that device scroll a web browser?
Yes it can, but not in a way I'd ever want to do... it's very slow and halting. I would stick to using this remote primarily as a way to read books without needing hands on the device, for web browsing I suspect there are better options I'm unaware of.
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#670I own a Kindle Paperwhite (last gen, relative to this new one) and a Kobo Clara BW (purchase in the last 6 months). IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. The issue is Amazon and how even if you want to put your own purchased ebooks on it, you have it send it through their servers. That tied with a few other privacy issues over the years led me to als…
> IMO, the Kindle is the premium e-reader when it comes to look and feel. It's just a fantastic experience. Interestingly, I switched from Kindle to Kobo because it was lacking various basic features that made it not feel premium. * Kobo epubs can show "pages in chapter" progress so I know how much longer there is until a nice stopping point, while Kindle only shows "minutes left in chapter" which is functionally use…
I should probably post on MobileRead with this question instead, but I wondered if you might have insight into this issue I've been having with my Kobo.
I've noticed that when I read on my Kobo I run into issue with ebook files. When I use Calibre to send .epub files I'll have lots of reliability issues; books will freeze up, pages won't turn, whole sections of the book wind up being unreadable, stuff like that. Having Calibre reformat books in the kobo epub format seems to help some, but I still have page turn issues from time to time.
Have you see any of this behavior before? As far as I'm concerned this would be the perfect ereader if it were just more reliable.