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03-28-2020, 07:30 PM | #17 |
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Thank you. I understand there's a setting to turn off certain touch options to avoid accidental tapping/gestures...? I can't find anything on overlays and cutouts, but I understand they can also help avoid accidental tapping/gestures, and are available for some tablets.
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03-28-2020, 09:13 PM | #18 | |
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03-29-2020, 10:00 AM | #19 | |
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1) A better (stronger) grip on the device as one reads 2) Minimize accidental page turns as one fidgets and reads |
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03-29-2020, 04:41 PM | #20 | |
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Terrible.
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You'll also want to specifically check this post of mine: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=32 |
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Back on topic. While a few people have had good luck with the PDFs I haven’t found that to be the case, probably the pdfs problem more than the kindle. Any pictures/maps Ive found in books usually are so small as to be illegible. The few comics I’ve tried have been a mess. Though really thats neither here nor there as thats not why I bought it, Im sure if the stuff is formatted correctly it works,as the few comics i’ll read they are a 1000 times better on an iPad Its screen and ability to zoom and scroll and of course the color While the other shortcomings mentioned are true, its a little slow, no lighting etc, how slow it gets with a large library and how it organizes its library but for me It doesn’t matter how fast the newer ones are, how good the 1000 fonts are without the screen real estate and the page buttons they aren’t on the radar. That said, since my previous comment Ive noticed a small crack in the screen. For many years I kept mine in its Amazon cover case but as of late Ive been using it without it and there is a small 1/4 crack in the screen. I don’t know how long before this causes and issue but for me I’ve already looked into replacements and a Pearl wink display is about $55 so if gets worse then thats my plan. The battery has shown no issues so i’ll let be and replace it as needed. I thought about I would just read on my iPad if my DXG died but as of late I like the distraction free reading. MY phone and iPad have turned me into a 12 year with ADHD it seems so I like it not being connected. I have looked into the Kobo with the larger screens but I don’t want spend $300 on one Ialso like the look of the new Oasis with its buttons but again the screen is too small and by the time you get a cover its close to $300 though the $5 trade in plus 20% makes it a little better. Last edited by Jack Torrance; 04-05-2020 at 11:45 AM. |
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I have an elderly friend who needs large print. He is delighted with his DX and still reads on it daily.
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On any 10" reader (about 20 cm width in landscape) pdf text (font size) will be considerably magnified (if read without margins in landscape mode, two screens per page) whereas on 8" (16 cm width) it will be diminished. I can still comfortably read about 50-60 % of my A4 pdf documents on my 8" Kobo reader, but those are either A4 documents with about 16-17 cm text width + 4-5 cm of empty margin i.e. they are easily legible on 16 cm screen width (with cropped margins), or are documents with 18-19 cm text width + 2-3 cm of empty margins, but implementing two-columns layout with about 7-9 cm width for each column, so, they can still be read relatively easily using two-column mode (four screens per page in portraite mode). Last edited by Marinolino; 04-06-2020 at 03:01 PM. |
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I have all the necessary reading functions on DXG including a margin removal, since I always use KPV reader app, instead of its poor native pdf reader, and I can also read my Djvu books & documents using KPV. Indoors, for troublesome A4 documents I usually use iPad, and also outdoors under a nice shade e.g. blanket over the rope in the garden or on the balcony. If I were a student I'd definitely buy a new quicker 10" eink, but since I don't mind using a paper for the note taking and the reading speed is not essential to me, I'll probably make a good use of my DXG till the arrival of an affordable 10" color epaper. Occasionally I even make a good use of my white DX (lower contrast than in DXG) and older 6" readers like Sony prst1, e.g. I'd simultaneously read the same book with DXG and DX but would use DX just for the notes at the end of the book or chapter, or would simultaneously use Sony prst1 for its good dictionaries. Last edited by Marinolino; 04-06-2020 at 03:03 PM. |
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04-06-2020, 08:16 AM | #27 |
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Also, margins is a paper skeuomorphism. There's no need for them. All they do is waste screen real estate.
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04-06-2020, 08:46 AM | #28 |
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You do need some margin, just nothing like as much. Or a border to the real screen that matches perfectly. Certainly the Kindle minimum is way too big. It should be user configurable up to the edge.
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I agree that there is no reason for the margins. But the problem is that the PDF is designed for printing and software on a computer can handle the margins no issue.
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Some programs can reduce margins of PDF, but not automatically. Also often fails if there is a binding offset / mirrored margins. Which would be practically every professional PDF that is proof for a bound printed copy rather than the stupid PDFs from Governments and Corporates instead of a responsive web page. Originally ALL web sites were "responsive" which is why the innards of most ebook formats are HTML based, it inherently has no screen or page size. PDFs inherently specify a page size and elements are related to the edges of the page, not a screen or window. Indeed the problem is PRECISELY that PDFs were designed to distribute documents to be printed exactly as even the SAME wordprocessor will display differently (printer metrics and historically page setup and fonts). PDFs are not eBooks and never ever should be sold as such. It's a format to proof a paper printout on screen. |
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