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Old 07-01-2009, 04:39 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Both, I guess, have their own benefit but reality is that after you double the font size I do not see anyone wanting to triple it. You get too little on a page.
There is a maximum practical font size, but it is much larger than on the EZ Reader (Hanlin V3). Also, "practical" depends on what your alternatives are. For those with poor eyesight, a few words per line may be "good enough" given that the alternative might be to not read at all. Landscape mode (longer lines) and automatic hyphenation also allow a larger font to be used.

On the EZ Reader, FB2 ebooks have 5 font sizes and the OpenInkPot firmware (using FBReader) has 8, see BeBook font sizes and types for scans of each. How many font sizes will the EZ Reader have under Adobe Digital Editions?

Even FBReader's largest font size on the EZ Reader isn't as large as it could be. For a really large font, see Things you can do with your iLiad. These are screenshots (copies of the screen bitmap) from an iLiad, which has an 8" EInk screen. You may need to click again on the images to get them ful-size and note that full size on a PC screen is likely to be much larger than on the iLiad.

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