The one improvement I want from an ebook reader is better typography.
On current devices (especially Kindle, but from what I've seen of screenshots online, also other readers), the font selection is extremely limited and the rendering is atrocious. Nobody seems to have spent any time on kerning, word breaking, or anything else relating to typography and layout.
Even after 20+ years of ebooks, they still don't have the visual quality of paper books. Headings, drop caps, quotations, illustrations — all the beautiful stylistic choices that a paper book makes is just wasted on an ebook.
Anyone have a happy story to tell here? Like some niche device that actually has high resolution and beautiful font rendering?
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