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Originally Posted by Curly
I am looking to buy a device mainly for myself, but would also like to be able to download books for my son who has visual reading difficulties. He currently reads books with a larger font size and uses coloured overlays over the text. The matt screen on the ebook readers would be helpful, but it would be even better if he could put a coloured overlay on the screen. Does anyone have any experience with this? Would you be able to see the text through it?
He has also written two chapter books on Word and I would like to be able to upload them to a reader. Is there a device which handles this better? Or is there software I could use to format the documents?
Any help greatly appreciated!
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I think Colored Overlays would impede the reader due to it not being backlighted.
Take a Colored Sheet of Paper (Grey, Tan, Light Blue, etc as that will get closer to the darkness of an eink screen), Print some Text on it, then put the overlay you have on it, that is similar to what it would look like on an ereader. (I honestly have never ever seen a color overlay for reading, but, eh, whatever floats yoru boat.
as for the second part, all readers can handle any text you have yourself, some would require conversion, almost none handle .doc format itself. but whenever you have your own text, its very simple to create an ebook from it.