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Everything the author complains about is a feature of the Kindle.

Just use your iPad if you want more than an “electronic book”.

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Bad typography on a device whose entire purpose is reading is not a feature by any stretch of the imagination.

Even if all you expect from the kindle is an "electronic book," they should at least attempt to reach parity with the typesetting of paper books, but they clearly don't care to.

I read a book per week and don't notice any typography issues. Now, I'm sure it can be improved, and I don't doubt that a typography nerd could certainly spot issues. But "bad" seems like quite an exaggeration. I like to protest against this modern trend of exaggerating how "bad" we supposedly have everything just because someone can ID some improvements that could be made.

A higher res screen would be nice. It's surprising how improving the resolution reduces eyestrain.

A kindle oasis is already 300ppi, how much higher res do you want?

And if you want larger for example a boox max 3 is 13.3 inch, "only" 2260 x 1650 for 200ppi though.

400 ppi :-)

Hm, supposedly even 600 ppi is coming:

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/will-we-see-500-or-600-...

I guess this makes more of a difference for japanese characters or I just don't know yet what I am missing :-)

My scanner can be set to 300, 400, or 600 dpi. I find the 400 scans are just easier on the eyes, and the 600 makes no difference (or perhaps that's just my monitor).

Apple’s iBook software supports a larger part of the ePub standard than Kindle does, and does a better job of handling tables, math, and SVG graphics. Plus, it allows scripting, and Kindle doesn’t.

Unfortunately it's all about the e-ink.

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