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Originally Posted by haydnfan
But a curious thing happened. People repeatedly started talking about how great Kobo was for providing more options like boldness, justification, progress etc. etc., and Kindle started adding these extra features to appease different groups of readers. You can argue that it compromised the UI. But honestly for most people it is set it and forget it.
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I don't think this breaks good UI design philosophy at all. Fine-grained typeface and font controls are useful, practical features because different people have different vision charactistics. Being able to accomodate different people's needs when presenting content is one way that ebook readers are superior to print.
This is an entirely different thing from positioning page numbers. The physical location of numbers unrelated to the content makes no practical difference when presenting the content to anyone except as the "position" is removed entirely to free up space for more of the content. Ignoring my opinion about faux page numbers for the moment, I see no reason to display these numbers with the content. Put them on a tap-panel like the typeface and font controls.