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Originally Posted by slm
A lot depends on your point of view. The article you cited includes the following sentence:
"Unfortunately, font size can be controlled by the user on the Kindle"
From my point of view the biggest reason for reading a book electronically is because it lets me change font sizes to sizes I can read comfortably and this criticism seems to be lunacy.
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I think what the author of that study was trying to point out, and rightly so, is that there are some documents or parts of some documents that do not lend themselves well to resizing fonts. The fanaticism many people have on these boards toward a totally resizeable, completely user-controlled document really only works with a plain-text book. For any other kind of document or for parts of a document that contains tables or graphs or captions, etc., resizing these can have very detrimental effects. A true e-publishing standard should take that into account and allow for a part of a document that doesn't just blindly increase the size of all text when the user presses the zoom button. This is just another shortcoming of the current blunt design of e-reading formats and is another example of how this entire e-publishing industry is still in its infancy.