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Originally Posted by Abecedary
The only time I find myself noticing the fuzziness/lowish resolution of my 505 is when I'm outside reading in direct sunlight. When I'm on the covered porch, in my reading chair, in bed, I tend not to notice it at all. But yes, in direct sunlight, it does take on the qualities of a slightly fuzzed-out photocopy. And I think I finally found my ideal typeface for most epubs, but I need to read another book or two with it first.
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I notice the screen under most conditions, but I'm definitely with you on the point of it being at its most obvious under broad sunlight conditions. It causes an odd behavior in me: the train I take to work has a pretty unpleasant fluorescent tube arrangement along with the bright windows. When I am seated next to the window, I tend to tilt my reader away from the window so it reflects the interior light, which paradoxically improves the viewing. With paper, the habit is the opposite; I savour more full-spectrum illumination and dislike cheap fluorescent tubing.
As for typefaces...I am lucky to have a fairly good supply available to me, but few really stood out as winners for my viewing size (8-10pt range). Some of the Adobe Opticals sets include a caption size which works somewhat well for this, and the best choices I have are Arno Pro Caption and Chaparral Caption, though I'm trying out Warnock Pro Caption also and it's not too bad. FF Avance is highly readable and dark even at pretty small sizes, but I don't care for it that much.
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