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Old 05-11-2013, 12:08 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by icallaci View Post
This. Exactly.
There are other issues with the Kobo readers that I would consider to be higher importance than losing a couple of lines at the top of the screen. Writing the code to allow introspection of sideloaded fonts or allowing DRMed library books to be borrowed through the ereader's web browser. Others might consider a night mode with white on black text or getting the wifi and browser to work reliably with hotspots that want a web popup before connecting to the internet as being more important. Perhaps having the ARM renderer and Access NetFront renderer display fonts at closer to the same size might be more important to some people?

Look at the number of messages whinging that the full screen sleep or power off image has a bar or slide on it. Do you ever wonder what type of person spends their time gazing adoringly at the sleep/power off screen on their ereader? Why not turn it on and read a few pages instead?

I spend a few decades reading dead tree books before building my first computer. Almost every one had the name of book and the name of the author at the top of facing pages just in case I forgot what book I was reading. Heck, they could have run the text up to the top of the page and down to the bottom and gotten at least 4 more lines of text on each page.

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David
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