Nook upgrade Glowlight 3 to 53.0.114

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Font sizes do vary paperback to paperback though, no?

Yep, and line spacing varies even more.

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Font sizes do vary paperback to paperback though, no?

Yep. As I mentioned, HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by kyrilson

Yep. As I mentioned, HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC.

Still, a fun experiment.

I have my Clara and my 6" Glowlight Plus set very similarly. On the Kobo I get 23 lines of text and on the Nook I get twenty. Though I only squeezed those extra three lines out on the Kobo with patches. Otherwise I get more lines on my Nook.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but on the complaints about font size, I don't think I would want a 3.5 font size. it would likely be too small for me (though I wouldn't complain if they decided to add more font sizes, I just wouldn't use them).

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Maybe I'm just lucky, but on the complaints about font size, I don't think I would want a 3.5 font size. it would likely be too small for me (though I wouldn't complain if they decided to add more font sizes, I just wouldn't use them).

You're just not fussy in general. OTOH I'm extremely fussy about fonts and their sizes, and most default fonts/font sizes never suit me, on whatever reader. They've all been modified by me in some way or other.

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Still, a fun experiment.

I have my Clara and my 6" Glowlight Plus set very similarly. On the Kobo I get 23 lines of text and on the Nook I get twenty. Though I only squeezed those extra three lines out on the Kobo with patches. Otherwise I get more lines on my Nook.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but on the complaints about font size, I don't think I would want a 3.5 font size. it would likely be too small for me (though I wouldn't complain if they decided to add more font sizes, I just wouldn't use them).

I'm fussy about it too. And I don't quite understand why the software developers, or whoever makes these decisions set the font sizing ramps the way they do. It seems like most of them will go from very small to way too large in between numbers somewhere in the ranges with every major manufacturer with a few exceptions like Kobo, which has a slider type of setting. You would think a slider setting would be the way to go. Perhaps it has to do with the early days of E-ink and our lack of technological know-how in working with it? Or limitations of the screen and E-ink technology itself?
Anyways, looks like my optimal settings are 26 lines, both on the Kobo and the Pocketbook Touch HD3 with Chareink font. 24 lines with Literata Book font. Although at night I'll bump the font size up a little sometimes, if I'm tired. Chareink seems easier to read at a smaller size than most other fonts.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by kyrilson

I'm fussy about it too. And I don't quite understand why the software developers, or whoever makes these decisions set the font sizing ramps the way they do. It seems like most of them will go from very small to way too large in between numbers somewhere in the ranges with every major manufacturer with a few exceptions like Kobo, which has a slider type of setting. You would think a slider setting would be the way to go. Perhaps it has to do with the early days of E-ink and our lack of technological know-how in working with it? Or limitations of the screen and E-ink technology itself?

I guess that 1) those developers read on tablets/iPads themselves, or don't read books at all

and 2) they imagine that most of the users of the dedicated ereaders are old and/or disabled people who need large font sizes. Because why would a young and healthy person want to read on eink?