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Originally Posted by AprilHare
I think I've become a lot less vocal about how I'm enjoying my ebook reader.
I read Mistborn lately; it was inspired by a friend who expressed an interest in it, but didn't have it in ebook format (legally). I provided it for her and we read it; me on my Sony Reader, her on her Kindle.
She is vision impaired (limited field of vision, short sighted and one eye) and enjoyed the larger font sizes - but later on stated she preferred it on a computer screen in PDF format, partially due to comfort, partially due to a desire for ligatures.
What do you think? Is the ebook reader good for people with strong vision impairment, or is there more we can do?
I never have concentrated on the lack of ligatures. Do any of the ebook formats or readers support ligatures?
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My cousin uses a K3 and she loves it. The K3's updated OS allows for speech on all function buttons (she told me it doesn't work for the qwerty keyboard but just actual function keys). While she still gets stuff online and in braille, she's found herself reading more - especially with text to speech. Since she does not have any vision - just light and shadow - she has not tried anything without speech. I'm not sure how a partially sighted person would enjoy the experience.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
When you say "you provided it for her" do you mean that you bought it for her from the Amazon Kindle Store? Is there any reason that she couldn't have done this herself?
I haven't seen "proper" ligatures on any reader (other than ones which have separate character codes, such as "æ"). Personally it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
EDIT: Actually I've just read on another thread that the forthcoming ADE 1.8 does carry out ligature substitution, so "fl" would be replaced by the "fl" ligature, for example. I think, though, that this would just apply to reading books on the desktop version of ADE; I don't think the book would be sent to the reading device like that.
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My cousin is 100% vision impaired - she has trouble using the Amazon website often. All of it is not accessible so she often has to have her son (or friends) locate and purchase books for her.