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View Poll Results: What do you prefer? | |||
Justified (centre) |
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64 | 46.04% |
Left aligned (ragged right) |
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59 | 42.45% |
Does not matter |
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16 | 11.51% |
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Do you prefer justified or left-aligned text on a your ereader?
Do you prefer justified or non-justified(ragged right) text on a your reader?
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I'm usually reading on a small screen, a phone or 6 inch tablet and justified text just looks stupid on such a small scren producing very irregular spacing between words. Left aligned for me.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. It seems to me that nearly all text is left justified and the options are right justified or not.
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You're right. I worded it wrong. How do I edit the poll options?
I meant this ![]() Last edited by CalbertAmu; 12-15-2016 at 09:49 PM. Reason: picture |
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I prefer justified text. Something about those blocks of text, they're soothing.
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This isn't something I've thought about. Give how many books I've read since I got my ereader a few years ago, I'm sure I must have read both ways. I guess if I didn't notice it, then I must not have a preference......
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This question has been raised at least once before. I'll give the same answer, for what it is worth, as I gave then.
I design ebooks for the MR library as a hobby. Chapter text is justified, end notes etc are left aligned, book and chapter titles are centered. |
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I would give a slight edge to justified, but after reading left aligned (ragged right) for a few pages, it doesn't bother me. So I voted doesn't matter.
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Justified for main body with TINY SIDE margins (just enough that the text is never off the visible screen , AKA avoid 'CRT: overscan' problem). Special effects: Hand written Notes, sign ... as appropriate
Chapter Opener: Flush or Indented. Big Letter, Dropcap or Plain (no difference from other body text) Chapter Titles: Variety Rules. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Roughly 45% prefer left justified - because [relatively] narrow screens (and missing hyphenation on some big-name e-ink readers) mean that the spaces between words in adjacent lines are too uneven Roughly 45% prefer full justification, because it looks better when done properly [in paper books] and paper books are traditionally printed this way and people want their readers look like printed books. By the way, the very first printed book that featured full justification (and hanging punctuation) was the Gutenberg Bible - this was a feature that they copied from hand-written texts. And finally, about 10% of people that were interested in answering such poll have no strong opinion on the matter and will happily read in any justification. |
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Left-aligned for me on my Kindle because of the narrowness of the screen. I use Calibre to change from full justification to left aligned. I'm less picky when reading on my Samsung tablet because with a wider screen there is less spaciness.
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Every single fiction book on my bookshelf is full justified. So every book I have read has been such. As I consider ebooks to be books like any other, they must be the same. Full justified. I actually pretty much can't read a book with ragged right. I have been known to return such badly formatted ebooks. That is what it is, badly formatted.
I read only on my kindles pretty much and on occasion on my smartphone at doctors office. Same applies there. But I wouldn't read a lot on such a screen anyway. |
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