Quote:
Originally Posted by Over
Quote:
Originally Posted by markbot
I wish Amazon would come out with the Kindle 2.0 this year...and address all of the issues we have. I guess we'll have to wait until next year since Bezos said they weren't going to upgrade for a while.
The top item for improvement on the list for me in the Kindle 2.0 is a wider screen. The narrow screen makes me read slower.
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So, you don't
like very much
to read in
narrow screens?
Maybe it's just
a matter of
getting used
to it?
And does it
make you read
slower? I bet
that with a
narrow screen
you'll be turning
pages quickly! 
I confess that
I don't like it
too, but I
always thought
that with an
eReader, it would
be like reading a
mass market
paperback book... |
My Kindle displays lots of words per line. I don't perceive it as narrow at all. Most of the time, I keep it set on font size 2 and this is typical formatting:
She was at it in a flash and without pausing to think,
still in the exhilaration of her acceptance, she slipped
the catch and pushed the window up. She knew where
Perry had been and was dying to know how he had got
along.
There should be 4 long-ish lines and one line with just the word 'along' on it.
When lighting is poor, I will move up to font size 3 and even on occasion to font size 4. Here's the formatting of that same text at font size 4:
She was at it in a flash and without
pausing to think, still in the exhilaration of
her acceptance, she slipped the catch and
pushed the window up. She knew where
Perry had been and was dying to know how
he had got along.
So font size 4 (2 sizes larger than the original) took the quote to five and one-half lines -- still much longer lines that Over pasted into his message. Even at the largest font size, I get this:
She was at it in a flash and
without pausing to think, still in
the exhilaration of her
acceptance, she slipped the
catch and pushed the window
up. She knew where Perry had
been and was dying to know
how he had got along.
Almost 8 lines.
If I had poor vision and needed the large font, then it would be VERY NICE if the Kindle had a screen rotate function like the Sony Reader. That would allow you to use the largest font and still get reasonably long lines which are easier for most people to read. The total number of words on the screen would be the same so the number of page turns wouldn't be altered.