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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have some questions for everyone partaking in this thread.
If Amazon was to offer options to have smaller margins and a smaller line height, would you use them or would you stick with the same options you use now? Do you even want such options?
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I already answered on the other thread, but I'll answer again here, more succinctly:
Margins:
The smallest margin setting on the Kindle is basically exactly how much I'd choose, even if I had the option to control it down to the last pixel.
Line spacing:
The widest line spacing on the Kindle is basically exactly what I'd choose.
Font sizes:
The 5th font size is exactly what I read. 4 years ago I was on the 4th size, but vision changes with age. 5th to 6th is a rather large jump, but I'd probably be OK with it when the time comes. The absolute largest seemed absurd to me until I saw my mom reading that way and saying it was perfect for her with no glasses.
Kerning:
I don't want more control over kerning, but I wish that the default was better. Maybe they've improved with the higher resolution Voyage, but I suspect that they haven't updated their rendering engine.
This does appear to be something that Kobo does better by default, but again I don't want adjustments, I just want it to be better out of the box.
The Mac (and to a lesser extent most Linux distributions) is a great example of this with great font rendering, vs Windows w/ crappy font rendering.