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Old 02-08-2014, 04:56 AM   #130
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Thanks As I say to my colleagues while they read those paper thingies, the advantage of e-readers is the ability to change font size. Aura HD looks promising, but SWMBO likes her Sony PRS-T2 because of the buttons - easier for single hand reading.
Changing the font size is a huge advantage; I sometimes want to get a chapter or two in before bed, but my eyes are tired - bumping up the font size a notch or two helps a lot.

As for single-hand reading, in my experience that depends on how big your hands are and in which hand you hold the reader. If I held my Glo in my right hand, I could easily read one-handed, aside from the occasional need to go back a page; my thumb would naturally hover above the right edge.

However, I'm more used to holding books (electronic or otherwise) in my left hand, and my hands are large enough that I can hold the Glo with all five fingers around the lower half (thumb on left edge, pinky supporting bottom edge, remaining fingertips around right edge), in which position I can tap the right edge of the screen with the tip of my middle finger to advance a page. Alternately, if I shift my grip so that the bottom left corner of the device rests in the center of my palm, with my pinky supporting the bottom edge and the other three fingers supporting the back, I can use my thumb to swipe left or right and thus page forward or back that way. (It actually ends up being more of a diagonal up/left or down/right swipe, but the Glo doesn't mind.) That's a bit looser grip than I prefer, though; it's as if the reader is a canvas and I'm using my hand as an easel - if I tilt my hand too much, the reader just falls right out. Regardless, if I switch from reading to interacting with menus, I always shift to a firm grip and do that two-handed, just because I need the extra control that gives me.

Of course, different people are different; that's just my personal experience. All of those options are better than what I had with my first Kobo, which was a Wi-fi model that used a directional pad in the bottom right corner. That was no more one-hand friendly than is your average gaming controller...for the same reasons.
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