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Originally Posted by Doonge
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As long as the line spacing is superior than 1 (which should be, less than 1 harms seriously readibility right?), nothing happens would be my guess and it behaves as expected. I just tried this with calibre on my computer, changed from 1 to 1.2 to 1.4 1.5 up until 2. I did not test on an ereader so perhaps you know more than I do.
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I will bypass the rest because it's not particulary funny.
You were astonished to encounter a "strong" reaction to your claim, and I think perhaps this is part of the crux of it.
Saying that we are influenced by book cover is a general statement about the relation between us, humans, and images. There's no quantifier, could be a little could be a lot.
Saying the opposite as a simple statement (no context) is saying there is no relation between you, a human, and images. Yet you're not blind, so your statement is like saying you're not human, or that you're superhuman.
I guess that's not what you intend to convey.
But you spend a lot of lines to say that you have RATIONAL REASONS not to trust covers, hence you are unaffected by them even when you look at them. This is another way of saying you are superhuman.
Everybody has rational reasons to distrust covers (and reasons to like them aswell, because you recognize a cover way faster than a title, which hasten searches for instance, even probably for you if you sometimes browse your collection with cover thumbnails). But somehow everybody but you and a few other snowflakes seems unable to be unaffected by covers? You have a very logical mind is likely a belief that you have.
If you recognize that what you mean is that you actively discard covers in order to not be influenced by them at all (and you could be in another context when you are looking at them, even if only slightly), then you must insist on the context, not on your superlogical nature. Because even if you indeed are very smart and logical, this angle is oftentimes taken by smartasses and ignoramuses (and you don't want to look like one is my guess).
This would be my take as to why your apparently simple claim incurs miscommunication. Better luck next time.
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People are NOT sheep.
Why are you insisting that DiapDealer must actively look or not look at covers?
He may just not notice them. They may have no influence on him.
Yes, many people are influenced by covers or they must have the latest and greatest whatever because "influential" person says it is the greatest.
That does not mean that ALL people are influenced by something.
Oh and you mentioned that you judged people on their looks.
That proves that you are a very visual person.
There are some of us who just really don't buy or judge on visual stuff. That doesn't make us abnormal or less than human.
Those studies were done with very select groups of people.
As far as visual goes, I know someone that didn't realize Liberace liked guys until she read Behind the Candelabra.
And I don't know of anyone more flamboyant.