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Originally Posted by cellaris
People want to read novels in black and white? That's fine by me. We are children of the printing press and the mass dissemination of culture. We are used to it. Just as we are used to seeing magazines or the calendar we have hanging on the wall in colour and not in black and white. It's a question of habit and the impossibility of doing it any other way. It is not so clear to me that it is a personal decision.
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Being "used to something" is another way of saying that's what we expect. I expect that my eReader will have good contrast, with a black font and a whitish screen. I see colored (and grayish) fonts inserted in Internet texts all the time. To me they're, at best, a distraction or, at worse, cause me to squint because (especially with grayish text) the contrast is not as good and the text is not as clear.
I've got nothing against color eReaders for those who want them. I understand that not everyone has the same taste (or the same eyes). But to say I prefer black text on whitish background because I'm "stuck in my ways" or "I don't think it can be done another way" is simply not the case. There's a reason why paper books are not (often) printed with a non-black font and it's not because black is the only choice. It's because black on white creates the best contrast. And good, dark contrast in fonts is what I'm looking for — in both an eReader or in a paper book.