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Originally Posted by jhowell
Personally I think using rotated text in an e-book would be a mistake. Some devices auto-rotate the screen when the user changes its orientation and the so rotated text would always remain rotated, making it difficult to read.
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Absolutely. How many people owning tablets know they can be locked? I didn't discover this feature until I had to STUDY a book with rotating maps that were set "sideways" on the page. Drove me crazy until I Googled for a solution. Yeah, stupid, but I suspect a majority, perhaps the vast majority, of Fire owners have never tumbled to this.
As for Amazon's catering to Kindle 1, 2, and DX devices, well, that is one of the reasons that Amazon is a greater company than Apple, which obsoletes devices just a few years old. The early Kindles seem to be pretty much eternal, to judge by the prices they get on eBay. I suspect it's formatters who are supporting the market.