[WalterBright]

I've thought about it now and then, but the D compiler consumes all my efforts. I have emailed suggestions to Amazon, and so far they have implemented 0 of them, nor have they responded to any.

Once all the diverse books are converted to ebooks, them all being rendered in the same perfect font on the ereader kinda lends them an off-putting sterility.

[sago]

> them all being rendered in the same perfect font

That annoys me. Book typography is a sophisticated art. Selecting a typeface for a book is a skill, positioning it, sizing it and kerning it for that book makes a big difference.

Books all presented in the same way lose a lot of their character. Dickens shouldn't look like G R R Martin.

Sadly, its a bit of a first world problem, most people don't notice it, not consciously. They just get this sense that ebooks lack gravitas or character somehow.

[WalterBright]

Fortunately, storage space has gotten so cheap it is no problem storing page images rather than text. Even without the images, there are a number of things ereaders could do to render the text in a more booklike manner.

One thing that mystifies me is why there are no ereaders with a screen the exact size of a standard paperback. If I was god-emperor of ereaders, that'd be the first thing I'd demand my minions create.