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Originally Posted by silvercity
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Today, I noticed that there is a small slant in the screen (sentence doesn't look straight) when reading a book...imagine holding a book in your hand and with the right hand holding it slightly lower. Is this normal for readers?
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Are you talking about the whole reader, or is the reader perfectly vertical and straight, and the text still looks slanted?
I have the Proporta cover, which holds the reader using clips on the left side.
Because the clip that hold the reader is free to shift slightly, it let's the right side of my Sony hang a little lower unless I support the bottom of the reader on the bottom right.
If the reader is being held absolutely straight, and the text looks a little slanted anyway, then I wouldn't worry about it, it's probably just an optical illusion of some sort.
Reading a book where the right margin is not matched to the left, or is uneven, can cause this type of illusion, but after you use the reader for awhile your eye starts to trust that text on the screen MUST be straight and the effect disappears.
In any case, I wouldn't worry, these eInk screens are manufactured to micro-meter tolerances (they need to be in order to even work), so there couldn't possibly be an error in the screen large enough to make the text look crooked.
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I just wanted to update this post, because I did think of one situation that can cause you to see text that is not straight, and that is when you are viewing a scanned PDF file that has not been OCR converted.
This is not typically an issue with EPUBs, but you could run into this on some PDF's which were created by scanning physical books.
These scanned PDF files can look like normal text, but are actually just full page images that have been captured and compiled together, one scanned image per page.
If the book was slightly crooked when the scan was done, you may notice that the lines of text in the resulting PDF are not quite straight.
Another sure sign that you are dealing with scanned pages that are bitmapped images, and not pages containing normal text, is that you can't highlight or look up words in the dictionary.