Bookerly is a

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as an exclusive font for reading on

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's Kindle devices and apps. Combined with a new typesetting engine, Amazon.com asserts that the font helps the user "read faster with less eyestrain." The font includes ligatures and

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pairs. Bookerly replaced Caecilia as the default font for the 2015

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and it has been used as the default font on Amazon's following

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. The Bookerly font was added to many of the older Kindle devices via firmware updates, and is also available at Amazon's Developer site.

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