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Old 11-02-2008, 01:50 PM   #34
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Isn't that one major benefit of an eBook reader over a printed book, though - the fact that when your eyes do get tired, or you're reading in poor light, that you can make the text larger?
Yes, it is an advantage but it is also a disadvantage. I have found that it first depends on the original font size used and second on how large the size becomes when it gets increased. It becomes very frustrating to read a book with 6 words constituting a page .

I find that if the base font size is 12 point, then S or M on my Sony is fine. Unfortunately sometimes M isn't quite right and L becomes unreadable.

I expect that in a few years we will be able to exert much finer control over text size standardly, perhaps even being able to set our readers to have a default font and margin size (which is something we should be able to do now, I would think).
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