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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
On a side note.... Wayyyyy back when, when all I had were books made out of paper, I read those books. I didn't make note of the font. I didn't make note of the quality of the paper; the size of the margins. I read the words on the page, flipped the page, finished the book, and moved onto the next book. The worst thing I can ever remember happening was that I accidentally borrowed a Large Print book from the library, and couldn't read it because the font was just too large. I went back and got the normal sized copy instead.
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I've read a lot of books over the decades. I still have quite a few around -- about 1800 hard covers and 5000+ paperbacks. I've looked at the fonts and the layout, checked the quality of the paper (except the SFBC editions -- their paper was always low quality) and made snide comments about them for almost as long. When I ran into an outstanding example of typography such as an early edition of Zelazny's Lord of Light, I noticed it. On the other hand, what I really noticed about Lord of Light was the writing and the story that writing told. Without those, nothing makes any book worth reading.
When the Linotype was retired and replaced by a phototypesetter, it took some of the fun away.
Sadly, after those decades, I'm finding large print books to be easier to read than normal print books when I'm reading for a long time. Now that's where any ereader shines with every book a large print book.
Regards,
David