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Old 12-30-2009, 12:42 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
But you get it in the wrong size so the impact is different. I was thinking of decorations at chapter starts and such things.

But also for the body text you get less words per line in a 6 inch e-ink reader than in a standard paperback book and that makes it harder to get good spacing.
PDFs made for 6" e-ink screens are rare. Ahi makes some. I make some for myself, but nowhere near as well-formatted as Ahi's. I expect there's a handful of other ebook aficionados making them, but that's about it.

It's not hard to get the typography to look good on a 6" page (or rather, no harder than it is for any other size page); it's just that very few people, and no mainstream publishers, bother with that size.
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