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Originally Posted by Julie Paradise
Yeah, sometimes when I read reviews about such and such e-ink reader device being unusable because of xy aspect (colour, dark screen, pixelated once one scrawls into the screen, too light, too heavy, uneven lighting, ...), I wonder how people read books before, without front light or dark mode ... *rolleyes*
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This is a good point. However, due to my eyesight, there were paper books I just couldn't read at a certain point. If they didn't have large print or eBook available in the public library, I never read them.
I compared some of the newer (2010 to date) paperback historical fiction font faces and font sizes to some of the older paperbacks I still haven't sold. The font in adult fiction books today is so tiny compared to the regular and mass market paperbacks I have from the 1980s and 1990s.
I used to use my NOOK on and off, but in the last 5 years, my NOOK and other eReaders are the
only way I will ever be able to read books anymore (
comfortably). I have family who just stopped reading full stop because it's a hassle to read paper books comfortably without special reading glasses and a lot of light. (They don't listen to me when I sing the virtues of e-ink!)
With extreme joint pain in my hands and worsening vision, I probably would've just stopped reading paper books and moved solely to audiobooks if I didn't have an eReader option.