I like my Kindle Paperwhite, but it's also a very frustrating product — slow, low-res, terrible UI, etc. But my biggest complaint is that Kindle made books ugl

I like my Kindle Paperwhite, but it's also a very frustrating product — slow, low-res, terrible UI, etc. But my biggest complaint is that Kindle made books ugly. I love beautiful typography, and bad typography can ruin a reading experience. Reading Kindle books are like stepping back in time to low-quality mass-market paperbacks. Using John Crowley's Little, Big as an example: * Original print version: https://i.imgur.com/pLmQyja.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pLmQyja.jpg * Kindle: https://i.imgur.com/xRu0eLo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xRu0eLo.jpg * Kindle Cloud Reader: https://i.imgur.com/GDqCD9u.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GDqCD9u.jpg There's absolutely nothing stopping us from being able to render the book beautifully with the right font. In this particularly egregious example, they didn't even bother to include the ornamentations. That's one thing, but those underlined chapter headings? They didn't even try. As I understand it, modern e-books are just HTML, designed to be reformatted to different screens. There appears to be limited support for fonts, and whatever Kindle uses to render text is awful. Another frustration about the quality of the books is how a lot of older fiction is only available in very shoddily digitized versions that don't even use correct typography ("smart" quotes, em dashes, indented paragraphs, etc.).