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Flash Crosspoint. I reflows much better than stock. It also fixes the lack of space between paragraphs.

Sounds like it’s still pretty early days then. I’ll probably hold off for a year or two and check again.

Even a year from now you're still likely to need a custom firmware.

The custom firmware today is more than good enough, and the devices often sell for under $70.

That must be why Amazon does a lot of pre-processing on their server. They know what device they are sending to and can tailor the file for that device.

Maybe expecting the X4 to look great is asking too much. It took Amazon years to get it right on Kindle. Hyphenation is a difficult task.

>t's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec

And yet reading systems fail to do that.