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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
. I end up setting it where I can still read comfortably with tired eyes. Nobody is going to look over my shoulder and laugh at me for reading at a little bigger size than necessary with fresh eyes. Quite frankly, if you can imagine yourself setting it and leaving it, then it doesn't matter one bit how much smaller or bigger the next size is.
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You seem to be missing the point of my post, so let me restate it.
My normal text size for reading is one of the larger middle-sized ones. The smaller ones are too small for me and the larger ones are to large for me; I use the one that's just right. It's sort of like Goldilocks & the Three Bears.
It's not a matter of worrying about someone looking over my shoulder and commenting on the text size; why would I care about that? Reading with too large a text size can be just as uncomfortable as reading with a too small one. I have to switch up to a larger text size when my eyes get tired because it then becomes easier for me to read using that larger size - where before it wasn't. ”Setting it and forgetting it" simply doesn't work on my case, and it's only the action of a moment to change the text size, so it's not an onerous chore.
Some people, one the other hand, have very acute vision and they are comfortable with the smaller text sizes.
I do think that an important criteria in an ereader is the range of text sizes available, because no one really knows at the time of puchase which size/font combination they are going to find the most agreeable. The more choices provided, the less need to ”settle".
Not everyone has the opportunity to try out a particular ereader before purchase. All of my ereaders were purchased without ever trying out a working demonstration model, with the exception of the Nooks. I had never even seen the others in real life beforehand. So my purchases had to be made strictly from online specs, ad copy, user videos, and online user recommendations .