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Originally Posted by meeera
I'm not sure where you got this idea - maybe from a particular set of reviewers who don't know what they're talking about? The line spacing can squish all the way up, unless you choose to read an ebook that forces otherwise. The cm at the bottom is, at least on the Glo, useful so that the minor LED headlamping doesn't project into the text.
I just checked the book I'm reading at the moment - there are 30 lines of text on the screen, not 18.
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I got that idea from the screenshot posted by Ripplinger above. He says that the 5 inch Sony displays about as much text as the 6 inch Kobo. Therefore, I would assume that he had set the Kobo to the smallest line spacing it could go. In that screenshot, the Kobo displays 18 lines of text, and the line spacing is much wider than on the Sony. If I see this correctly, the font used on the Kobo is also wider.
30 lines is about right. The Kindle Paperwhite using DejaVu Serif Fat displays 28-32 lines, when using fontsize 4 or 3. Which one I use depends on the original font size of the book.
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
That probably came from the comparison I did on Page 1 which was at a font size I can read without my reading glasses. You're of course using a much smaller font size to get 30 lines of text. I showed the same font size on the 5" Sony held almost as much text as the 6" Kobo, both using the same size font.
The point was that the Sony allows you more customization of the font layout, including even tighter line spacing as the image showed, than the Kobo, which basically allows just as much text on the 5" screen as is on the Kobo 6" screen. Even if I reduced the font on both readers, they'd still fit about the same text on them.
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But why is the line spacing on the Kobo so wide in your case? Meeera states above that she can fit 30 lines of text onto the 6 inch screen. I can fit 28-32 on the Kindle, depending on the font size selection and the original font size in the book itself. Is the book you are reading forcing a minimum line spacing, by setting the line spacing to 150% or something? (You'd need to check the CSS, as you can't see it anywhere else.)
Fitting the same number of characters on one screen that you'd normally see in a mass market paperback (which is around 2400, in my Del Rey and Random House paperbacks I've counted), without making the fonts smaller, would be THE improvement for me. If the Aura HD can do this, then I'd (re)consider it. Otherwise, it's too small an improvement to consider replacing my still very new Paperwhite.