04-26-2013, 04:57 PM | #226 | |
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04-30-2013, 11:02 AM | #227 |
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I would like to see a screen shot from this eBook so I can compare how it looks on my 650 in terms of how much text I get on screen. I've set specific values so I'll know for sure that the text will be the same size with the same line height.
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I'll put it onto the Kindle too, so I'll be able to see the difference between the Aura and Paperwhite.
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04-30-2013, 11:13 AM | #229 |
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Here you go.
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04-30-2013, 11:31 AM | #230 |
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Just tried War of the Worlds on my Kobo Glo as well and it looks very different with a much smaller font size and the left and right margins are non existent with the text right up beside the edge of the screen.
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04-30-2013, 11:41 AM | #231 |
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Thank you for that. Now to what's really odd. The Kobo screen has more space yet I get more text on my 650.
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04-30-2013, 11:42 AM | #232 |
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40 lines of text per page, and over 60 characters per line, on the Glo. That font must be really tiny The margins are so tight, that letters from two different lines are actually touching. This is nigh unreadable :X
I actually don't like the text to be THAT close to the side. It looks weird to me. |
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Edit: I just copied the files over using windows explorer to both the glo and Aura, did not use Calibre |
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Is there anything that should have been done differently? I did expect to get more text on the Aura's screen. I set the font size in p to 1em and H2 to x-large and h3 to large. Line height is set to 1.0em in p, h2, and h3. So if I can fix things to get more text on the Aura screen, please tell me how and I'll make the changes in v5 and post that. |
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Edit: I increased the margins by 1 and now it looks just fine with that font size on the glo. I reduced the font size on the Aura by 4 and it looks much closer to the screen shot that JSWolf put in his post from the 650 and I get another 4 lines more of text than he has on the 650. Last edited by jiminrussell; 04-30-2013 at 11:56 AM. |
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On the Kobo, you have the white space above the page number and you have white space below. On the Kobo photo with no chapter heading, that's 31 lines where on the Sony it's 36 lines.That's a lot of waste of screen space on the Kobo. |
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Trying to compare number of lines on different readers seems to be very difficult as it isn't easy to get the font displaying the same, especially when using readers from different companies.
My suggestion is to compare the physical space available for text on the different readers. I recently did just that, see my post Aura vs Paperwhite for measurements taken on the Aura. However I no longer have a 650 so I can't provide these measurements. Then, assuming you would use the same (perceived) size font to read with, this should give a good idea as to how much more text you would see per page on the Aura. |
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