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Originally Posted by shalym
...and all of this is why I prefer left aligned (ragged right) over fully justified. Reading at that font size is a fairly normal occurrence for me at night, especially this time of year, when my eyes have been bombarded with pollen all day. There was hyphenation on other pages in that book, it's just chance that there wasn't on that one.
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Which, no doubt, is why Amazon and other vendors are increasingly moving to allow the user to pick the justification that they, the users, want. I mean..everybody has their preferences, for whatever reason.
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Before you ask what I did before e-readers, my answer is that my eyes weren't that bad when I got my first portable e-reader (a palm device, which quickly got upgraded to a Treo) Even then, I would sometimes make the font big enough so that only one or two words appeared on the (much smaller) screen. I had also started reading less, because it just wasn't as comfortable. I do wear glasses during the day if I'm reading or working on the computer, but it's just not comfortable to wear them when I'm reading in bed, so I crank up the font size.
Shari
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I finally had to give up on David Simon's "The Corner," in paperback, because it was about 8pt, maybe 9pt. I made it through about 40 pages before I finally gave in and bought it in Kindle, to save my eyes. I
do understand. But as I work in the field, I am aware that everybody--Amazon and all the other companies--are clearly working harder than ever on making the ebooks ever-more-fungible. By the buyer, I mean. Having spent a decade trying to make eBooks as unintrusive on the buyer as possible, so that they don't get between the reader and the content, I know first-hand just how hard it is to make it work.
Hitch