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Originally Posted by Hitch
If it doesn't bother your eyes, or make your eyes feel tired, etc. then you should ignore it. Seriously.
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That's certainly where I'm at. I simply don't get the fuss.
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But typically, a "bad" font like that (I'm not trying to be subjective; I'm looking at it objectively, in terms of all those pesky trombone reasons) will literally cause you to develop headaches, swimming eyes, etc. It has to do with signals that the eye sends to the brain.
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I havent had a headache, for any reason, in years (unless sinus infections count).
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Originally Posted by Hitch
(That's also tied to line-length, too. If a line is too short, your brain sends a "flick" along with your eyeball's flick, to your brain. If the line's too short, your noggin starts to feel irritable, antsy. If it's too long, you start to feel bored with the story, sleepy-ish, even.)
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Can't say that I've ever noticed that effect. Don't get me wrong, some stories DO bore me. But that's typically because they're boring stories.
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Just out of curiosity--and forgive me for not paying attention--are you sure that you are seeing the Free Serif, and not some other default font, on your device? I realize that I'm talking with you, and you'd know, but you have mentioned that you don't pay attention to fonts. Does your device always display the fonts that are embedded?
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Yes. My Bookari app is set to default font settings, which will display embedded fonts if present. I'm reading this book with the Kobo app and the fonts are set to publisher defaults.
I'm not the type who attempts to "homogenize" my reading experience. I like a little typographic variety. So I don't do a lot of overriding. I want to see what you guys and gals who create ebooks intended me to see. I just jack up the font-size and get to it.
