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Originally Posted by cybmole
I am trying this app & liking it.
But can you clarify something for me that is not clear from the user manual.
There is the idea of a theme which stores pretty much every preference except a font size. it stores your choice of font family, your margins, your line spaces etc.
But font size has it's own separate control - so is that stored on a per-book basis. i.e. if i tweak font size with gestures in one book ,then go back to some other book, does the change carry over - I think not ?
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Once you
change the size ... yes. I beleive it will remember
that size for
that book. But I don't seem to recall having to reset a font size when opening a new book. It seems to be at the size I prefer already. Perhaps that's cause my books don't really specify any base font-size. It's not something that causes me much grief, though. I'm not looking to make all ebooks a homogeneous experience--that's what Moon+ is for.
If the font looks too big/small to me, a couple twitches of the finger fixes it. Not to mention that I don't really keep much more than a couple of books at a time on my device. If I'm reading one book, I'm rarely going to close that to check out another. I'm not much of a book-browser.
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I was also surprised by the lack of fonts - it installs with only one font and the download fonts option delivers only a bunch of odd looking ones that I've not heard of.
I seem to have gotten around it by finding where the tablet stashes its system fonts and copying some of those into the mantano fonts folder, but I'm surprised they don't make that a little less geeky ?
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Yeah, I'm not really much of a font connoisseur. I think I'm still using whatever default font Mantano came with. As for the lack of fonts it comes with, I think that's a decision to keep the file-size down. Many people like me just read without even bothering to see what fonts are available, so I'm guessing they figure that those who want choices, won't mind a one-time download--or doing a little hoop-jumping to install their own. It might be relevant to note that the ability to load your own fonts (four separate font-files per family) is relatively new to Mantano. Maybe it will become less geeky down the road. But to be honest, I don't know of
all that many reading apps that make installing custom fonts even
possible ... let alone simple.
Definitely a "those who
want, will find a way ... and those who don't, won't know they're missing anything" sort of scenarios. *shrugs*