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In theory, it should be absolutely no issue to upgrade Amazon's top of the line, glass screened Kindle Voyage to use the latest firmware, including the new Bookerly font. Bookerly was created to make e-ink reading surfaces even more pleasant to use, and it works well. A lot of the inconsistencies and odd formatting shifts you'd get in prior typefaces simply disappears with Bookerly. Getting Bookerly on my Voyage, however, was a total pain.
I also tested Bookerly against the previous default Kindle font Caecilia. Bookerly was still significantly easier to read than Caecilia. Caecilia compared better to Bookerly than Baskerville, but I think Bookerly still beats it hands down.
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The new Kindle Paperwhite was also released with a new font. Which may not seem all that exciting. But the font, Bookerly, was designed specifically for Amazon for reading on digital screens, with improvements over the old standard font used on Kindles (Caecilia) in terms of text justification, image positioning, consistent paragraph breaks, easier-to-use footnotes, and "kerning," which is the technical term describing the spacing between letter pairs.
Bookerly and Literata were not designed because ebooks deserve better fonts. They were designed, because readers of ebooks deserve to read more comfortably, no matter how long and on which device they read.
Almost two years ago, I upgraded my Kindle to the 2nd generation Kindle Paperwhite. In the upgrade, I got the latest front-lit screen with a resolution of 212 pixels per inch [ppi]. Yesterday, I upgraded my Kindle to the latest Kindle Paperwhite 3rd generation which boasts laser printer quality 300 ppi, a new font, and a new rendering engine that allows for slightly better formatting, drop caps and a few other typesetting niceties.
Let's get right to what is probably the biggest question in people's minds: how much of a difference is there between 300 ppi and 212 ppi? You might not think it sounds like much of a difference. If you're someone who reads their Kindle with a relatively large font, you may not notice a huge difference. You may notice that the text is slightly smoother, but maybe your current device is just fine.
The animated image below is a close-up comparison of ppi differences with fonts at their smallest size from three cases. The first frame shows the 2nd gen Paperwhite at 212 ppi with the default Caecilia font. The second frame shows the 3rd gen Paperwhite at 300 ppi with the same font. The third frame shows the 3rd gen Paperwhite with the new Bookerly font. For starters, watch the "a" and the "g" in "starlight":
At 212 ppi (and the smallest size), Caecilia looks a bit chunky compared to its 300 ppi counterpart, and even chunkier compared to the more refined Bookerly font. Overall, I think Bookerly nicely combines the clear readability of Caecilia with the "nicer" Palatino font. At the higher resolution, spaces within letters are more defined, and serifs are smoother and sharper. I had seen samples of Bookerly when Amazon first announced the font, but I didn't think I'd actually like using it over Caecilia. But now that I have the new device, and even though I still really like Caecilia at the higher resolution, I admit that I do prefer Bookerly. Your mileage may vary.
Screen resolution and font difference aside, the new Paperwhite looks nearly identical to its predecessor. But there is one difference right on the front of the device that I really appreciate. The word "Kindle" still appears on the bottom bezel, but it is no longer silver/chrome. Instead, it is black, very understated and not at all distracting. You can't really see it in the comparison shot below, but you can see it in the header graphic for this article. The bright version has bothered me for quite some time. When reading, it was a minor distraction in my periphery that just wouldn't go away:
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But now Amazon has taken this one step further. It allows five levels of boldness for all fonts via a firmware upgrade, in addition to increasing font-size selections. Check the upgrade page in regard to your device, which may or may not be covered at this point. Here is the page for a download for Update 5.8.11 for my Kindle Oasis.
Bookerly is an OpenType Serif font, which means it has small lines at the ends of each letter. These little details make for a more enjoyable reading experience as they provide contrast and help with visibility when printed on paper.
The new Kindle Paperwhite adds our highest resolution Paperwhite display, delivering the same 300 pixels per inch that readers love about the top-of-the-line Kindle Voyage. With unsurpassed resolution and 2x the pixels as the previous generation Kindle Paperwhite, the display delivers laser-quality text, making it easy to read comfortably at any font size, including at smaller fonts so you can fit more words on each page. Even with the new higher resolution display, Kindle Paperwhite delivers battery life that is measured in weeks rather than hours.
Kindle Paperwhite now offers Bookerly, an exclusive font designed from the ground up for reading on digital screens. Warm and contemporary, Bookerly is inspired by the artistry of the best fonts in modern print books, but is hand-crafted for great readability at any size. It introduces a lighter, more graceful look and outperforms other digital reading fonts to help customers read faster with less eyestrain. See Bookerly: www.amazon.com/bookerly.
New fonts designed for e-reading are all the rage at present, with Amazon launching bespoke slab serif Bookerly and now, surprisingly, Google Play Books springing specially designed Literata as the default typeface on its app.
The new font was designed by Type Together who had a brief for a new book typeface that would provide an outstanding reading experience on a whole range of devices and high-resolution screens running different rendering technologies.
As you probably know, a font is simply a different style of the typed word. For instance, if you look at a newspaper, the size and type of words you read differ from those shown in a magazine, and we are simply going to change the font on your Kindle to a different one.
I understand that the Kindle open dyxlexia font was dropped in August 2022 after a Kindle update. Has it been added again and will it drop when another update comes along? Also, Does the kids Kindle have it?
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