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Originally Posted by MsAstoria
I perfer using landscape mode for book reading. It looks and feels like a book and just a quick tap on the side of the page turns the page.
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Don't you find that lines are too long when reading in landscape. There is an optimal line length in typography for a certain font size. If the line is too long for the font size your eye will have to do a lot of hunting for the start of the next line. I think the leading also comes into play here.
David Siegel(sp) used to have his Web Wonk site that talked about web site design using well know typography ratios to make your web site as readable as possible. Alas the site isn't up any more but I think the Internet archive does have it.
This is the reason that I don't maximize the browser on my wide screen monitor. Since most web sites seem to have a fluid display width I find the lines are much to long for the font sizes used... so reducing the width of my browser to about 1/2 the width makes stuff much more readable.
BOb