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Originally Posted by Jaden
I actually like the spaces between paragraphs. For me it's more comfortable to read that way, so I always format my ebooks to have them.
Also I can not really understand the obsession with how many lines of text you have on the screen. It's not like the reader gets any heavier with the books having more pages. And turning the page is very fast and easy. (Not saying that people aren't entitled to their opinions or that other people's preferences are stupid or anything - I just don't really get it...).
Having used a Kobo Touch before, I get much more text on my screen than I used to before (75 pages in my comfortable font sizes on the touch vs. 48 on the Aura, different font size - else it would still be 61 to 48). But I really just checked that once.
And I must admit I really didn't care about the amount of pages turns needed to finish a book before and don't know - as long as we are talking about a few lines and pages. But reading some people (not everyone, of course) it sounds as if the amount of page turns had doubled.
Still voting for options, of course. And I think an "Advanced Options" section would be great. I don't think it needs to be some config file. A check box in the settings to show or not to show advanced options would be enough, I think.
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I am the same as you in my preferences, but I am in deep deep sympathy for those who like their books formatted in the traditional way.
Kobo seems to be very arbitrary in this. They can obviously display things both ways as they have done in the past, but seem to be opting for the Kobo way or the highway. Then they offer the font options and the line spacing options, which are (esp. line spacing) very backwards in implementation. The minimum default line spacing is 1.3 which is about .1 higher than the most commonly used ones. So unless you really want a lot of extra (and distracting) spaces between the line, what good is it?
I am afraid it will be their downfall if the inability to make simple, no surprises reading software does not do them in first.
Helen