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Old 10-03-2014, 12:41 PM   #618
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Originally Posted by soondai View Post
Golly that is about as pedantic as it gets.
I didn't find what Harry said to be pedantic. I did suspect, however, that evanft felt he'd already implied Harry's point -- that deeper margin controls were important to him but not necessarily to everyone -- and that people who read evanft's post probably inferred as much.

Still, I've watched sentiments like evan's devolve on threads as innocuous as this one until the end result seemed to be group therapy for the bitter.

That bleated, I think we can make a distinction between features that are important/valid and ones that stop vast hordes from buying Kindles. It's possible that a huge number of people who buy Kindles for other reasons might enjoy having access to deeper layout controls as well (baseline, leading, kerning, tracking, margins, fonts, etc.). If so, then I can see why Amazon might view the absence of such controls as a "problem." The idea is to make each successive Kindle better and to appeal to even more consumers. Deeper margin and layout controls could be seen as another step toward that aim.

I understand Harry's point about users getting into trouble installing broken fonts and subsequently martyring customer service, but is it likely that the majority of users would bother tinkering with sideloaded font files? Wouldn't they be more inclined to fiddle with whatever controls, options and fonts were on the device already?

I've never heard anyone complain about having margin control on Kobo devices. I've only ever heard people complain about margin glitches (voracious headers, footers and page numbers, gaping paragraph breaks, etc.).

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