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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
OK, so it is a combined UI and system/reader software issue? It is not like you pick the size from a list and poof that is the new font size?
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Yes.
Why there would be any restriction on the number of sizes if you have a list or menu I cannot imagine. At worst you'd have 33 menu items in order to give three significant figures of font sizes, covering the range from 1 letter per page down to one letter per pixel. In that situation saying "but you can only choose from 5 fixed sizes" is just bad manners on the part of the designers. Even a "here's a grid of samples, pick the one you like" would be better than a list of five, or seven, or even twenty numbers. But that's probably too Mac-like for the liseuse world.
With the "how few buttons can we get away with" UIs it's a different game altogether. Sony, for instance, apparently decided that fewer buttons at the expense of appalling library management and a generally limited UI is a reasonable trade-off. But then they went and put ten extra buttons down the side to make their menu system work faster... I do not know what they were thinking. For instance, the exact same system that lets you jump to page 123 could let you go "font size button, 07.4 point font" in four or five button presses. But that's not what they did. It reinforces all the reasons I've never bought Sony products before and hopefully never will again - they're usually early to market with something that kinda works (and at a significant price premium) but is eventually overtaken by much better products. I can't wait
