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Old 06-12-2010, 06:58 PM   #107
Rique
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Location: Warrenton, VA
Device: Sony PRS-505 (silver), IPad 3G 64GB
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Originally Posted by scottjl View Post
why all the concern about the margins? do you not just read all the lines of text and hit next page? when i'm into a book, i don't even notice the house burning down around me, let alone what the page margins look like.
Margins and line spacing with iBooks doesn't bother me too much, either.

I would prefer that iBooks had more choices for fonts, backgrounds (such as a sepia option like the Kindle app has), and better access to a night mode. I also prefer single page landscape reading (I think I'm in the minority on that), so I would like to see that option, also.

I have more quibbles with the store - I wish I could scrub out the Apple Fairplay DRM from the titles, that the bookstore provided access in more ways than the iPad (e.g, iTunes access and browser access), that there was a more intuitive interface, better selection and better pricing.

Given that, I'm doing my buying from Sony and Amazon these days. But iBooks is definitely "in the mix" as a reader app.

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