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Old 06-15-2023, 11:36 AM   #1
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Post a picture of your reading settings!

Following another interminable argument discussion about fonts, margins, linespacing etc, I thought it would be fun to see what settings different people use on their reading devices. So you're invited to post a photo or a screenshot of your usual reading settings! Doesn't have to be an eink reader; if you read more often on a tablet, phone, computer, post your favorite settings on that. If you read with different settings on different devices, post the one you use most frequently, or all of them, as you wish.

Good-natured joking and thoughtful discussion is allowed, criticizing and belittling other people's settings (it's ugly! horrible! how can you read like that!) is not.

Here's a photo of my settings on the Libra 2 (they're very similar on my Sage).
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Old 06-15-2023, 11:59 AM   #2
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Old 06-15-2023, 12:03 PM   #3
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Old 06-15-2023, 12:08 PM   #4
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I thought you used left-aligned?
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Old 06-15-2023, 12:20 PM   #5
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Here's my setup on my Kobo. I'm in the stupid office, so overhead fluorescents are making bright spots on the screen
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Old 06-15-2023, 01:13 PM   #6
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I thought you used left-aligned?
That is a Kobo Plus book and I'm not enthused about removing DRM to edit it.

Here's an epub image.
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Old 06-15-2023, 02:18 PM   #7
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Old 06-15-2023, 02:30 PM   #8
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Getting a good picture of a screen, especially with a mediocre smartphone camera, is not easy in my case. So I'll just list my settings and usage via text:

Paperwhite 3, firmware 5.9.4
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Portrait orientation
Fully justified text
Minimum margins
Minimum line spacing
First line of paragraph: Indented
Extra space between paragraphs: None
Caecilia Condensed font
Font size: 6 (subject to change depending on how tired my eyes are)
Font boldness: 3
Bottom left shows: Time left in chapter
Bottom right shows: Percentage of book completed
Top shows: Nothing (no clock, etc.)
Daytime reading: Illumination turned off completely
Nightime dark area reading: Illumination set to 13 on a scale of 0 to 24
Airplane mode: 100% of the time, never goes online, sideload only
In transport: Inside protective neoprene case, screen against hard cased small tablet
In use: Naked device, no cover

Pretty much everybodys screenshots of their display look mostly identical. Except for @305869 - the font or the boldness or something there looks a little different to my eye.

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Old 06-15-2023, 02:36 PM   #9
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The fun is in seeing the pictures, mediocre or no.
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Old 06-15-2023, 02:59 PM   #10
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Pretty much everybodys screenshots of their display look mostly identical.
To me, they look very different.
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Old 06-15-2023, 03:00 PM   #11
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Old 06-15-2023, 03:02 PM   #12
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Exactly. The picture quality is not important.
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Old 06-15-2023, 03:17 PM   #13
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Following another interminable argument discussion about fonts, margins, linespacing etc, I thought it would be fun to see what settings different people use on their reading devices. So you're invited to post a photo or a screenshot of your usual reading settings! Doesn't have to be an eink reader; if you read more often on a tablet, phone, computer, post your favorite settings on that. If you read with different settings on different devices, post the one you use most frequently, or all of them, as you wish.

Good-natured joking and thoughtful discussion is allowed, criticizing and belittling other people's settings (it's ugly! horrible! how can you read like that!) is not.

Here's a photo of my settings on the Libra 2 (they're very similar on my Sage).
You guys should share the font too! Which one is this?
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Old 06-15-2023, 03:22 PM   #15
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You guys should share the font too! Which one is this?
Lexia Dama is the font in my pic.
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