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Originally Posted by barryem

I've been thinking about this thread a bit and it occurs to me that one of the things that's come from the move from paper books to ereaders is finicky readers. I read paper books for about 55 or 60 years before I got my first ereader. I never once, or almost never, cared about the font, the font size, the page margins, the line spacing, etc. Except when one of these features presented some issue, and that was very rare, I wasn't even aware of them.

I cared, but there wasn't much point complaining about it, because I didn't have a choice. I've abandoned paper books when these things were enough of an issue.

Originally Posted by barryem

Now, with ereaders, I can control all of those things and so can everyone else. And suddenly readers hate one reader because they don't like it's fonts and they hate another reader because they can't control the font weight and there's more talk about such things than about the books we read.

Here there is, because this is primarily an e-reader tech forum. In other social networks, where the primary focus is books (such as Goodreads), the primary focus is books.