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Originally Posted by Rizla
Like x-ray and speed-reading? But you can't lower the margins or add custom fonts, or a bolded caecilia? This is just silly and obviously so. I don't know why you defend it.
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I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
All I said was that adding features solely because "why not, you don't have to use it" is a bad idea.
I assume X-Ray and speed-reading were NOT added for that reason, but rather because Amazon thought it was an attractive enough feature to justify adding it.
I don't know why you think I am fighting against the idea of margins and fonts. Personally, I am disappointed that Amazon thought speed-reading was more valuable than margins and fonts.
I just don't think Amazon is deliberately acting
with the intent of making their ereaders less attractive to their target audience (everyone)
I am not all that sure that their effect is that, either. Kindle owners who want fonts and margins will still buy Kindles and Kindle books, apparently. And the legions of 5-books-a-year readers are also a significant part of Amazon's target audience. And they are probably a whole lot more impressed with speed-reading than I am.
Choice rules. You want margins and fonts, buy a Kobo. If Amazon thinks they can snag a meaningful number of Kobo users by adding fonts and margins, they will do it.
I use neither, and frankly, on a personal level, I care about neither. I'm happy as is.
And it seems that Amazon thinks there are more of me than there are of you.
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E-readers are NOT printed pages, and as evidenced by the following posts, users do want to have the OPTION to reduce margins.
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As evidenced, a vocal minority of users on MobileRead do want to have the OPTION to reduce margins.
I have not seen any evidence, on MobileRead or off MobileRead, that users
in general do want to have the OPTION to reduce margins.