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Originally Posted by sparklemotion
It's my biggest gripe with amazon kindles. Why, oh why, won't they simply give us more options? Fonts, margins, line spacing, etc. They're fairly basic options and it's such simple addition. It's really hard to understand why they're so resistant. The competition has a big advantage in those areas.
I'd consider the new Kobo, but I want the the page turn buttons on the voyager and the higher ppi, plus the amazon software. So I'll stick with kindle, but alas..
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The font size blows up between the first, second, and third largest sizes. I'm not sure how they determined what those sizes should be. Maybe some intern just made them up, or maybe oodles of time money and effort went into the research. But no matter what, fixed number of size choices will inevitably leave some customers unhappy because of the Goldilocks problem.
They haven't changed it because
1/ they don't want to bother changing the Aa menu. This is a perfect case of letting the user interface dictate functionality. That Aa screen has not changed since at least the K3. It was designed to be easily navigated using the 5 way controller and now we are stuck with it. It's a good thing the K3 had no front light, else we would be stuck with 8 light levels represented by sun smileys. They could change the menu a bit or add an advanced menu for additional tweaking but why bother because ...
2/ most people are okay with the choices anyway and even if they are not perfectly happy they don't stop to think how it could be different. [I'm kind of baffled by folks who think their (insert product name here) is perfect as is and there is nothing they would want differently or change; of course many of the same are first in line to pre-order whatever new thing (insert company name here) produces]. Anyway, the ones who are really unhappy can jailbreak their kindle, or go somewhere else. LOL j/k about that last part because ...
3/ it's not like Amazon has any real competition anyway. And besides, do you want...
4/ Jeff Bezos to demean himself by introducing features the not-competitors have had for years? I think not!
Shoutout to NiLuJe and all the devs for the fonts hack.