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Originally Posted by JSWolf
With the Kobo, you can patch the firmware and change the default font sizes and put in the exact font sizes you want. That would solve your font size problem.
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In effect that's true with the Kindles as well. I tried that FONT_STEP thing to change the font sizes and I adjusted it and got it exactly where I wanted it on my Voyage. I left it like it was on my Paperwhite and I still found when reading I didn't much care. When I was picking the font sizes I did like the new sizes a lot better.
Anyway I later did a full reset of my Voyage (I do that every few months on most of my devices) and I didn't bother to redo that FONT_STEP thing.
I think it's what I find while reading that really matters and when I'm reading I'm in the world of the book and font sizes simply don't exist. I read paperback books most of my life. I'm just about to turn 75 and I've been reading since I was 4 and I've read a lot of paperbacks. I'm not sure what fonts any of them had or what sizes. Maybe they were all the same. Probably not. It really never mattered to me.
I've experimented with other facets of this since I began reading on modern ereaders. I've tried reading with and without right justification, with wider and narrower margins, with different line spacings, with different fonts, etc. With only a very few exceptions while I'm reading these things simply don't matter to me. When I'm comparing the way they look they matter a lot but that's not very important. It's when I'm reading that it matters.
I think this is similar to the arguments I use to have with audiophiles. I've always been a music lover and I have a pretty good ear. I can be perfectly happy listening to music on a decent mono speaker. I can sure tell the difference when I listen on a fine set of speakers. The difference is huge, but with few exceptions, it doesn't matter to my enjoyment of the music. It matters a lot when comparing but I get just as lost in the music either way and love it just as much.
Audiophiles don't get that. I don't get audiophiles.
JSWolf doesn't get that. I don't get JSWolf.
But Wolf, I'm glad you're here. I do learn a lot from you.
Barry (aka Really)