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One other thing, hyphenation out of the box is rather poor. If you go to the Better Hyphenation thread, you can download a an English Hyphenation dictionary that works better, It has to be installed after every firmware update. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=252405 Anther thing you may want is a really good font you can side load. You put the fonts in the fonts directory in the root. The font is ChareInk6SP. It's a very good font with kerning, ligatures, and a smaller space. It looks very good on the Libra 2. You don't need the weighted version as you can up the weight from the Aa menu. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056 Last edited by JSWolf; 07-12-2024 at 11:46 AM. |
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On my Nexus 7, I'm currently using Google Play reader with Meriweather font at 163%, 100% spacing and left justification. It's 19 lines to the screen. It's large enough that I have no trouble reading it, but not so large that there's too little content per page. I don't believe it hyphenates the right edge of lines.
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Random trivia: Left justified text is widely regarded as easier to read, including by groups ranging from the World Wide Web Consortium to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Computer screens are a different matter - they're generally much larger and left-aligned text is easier to read there. |
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But you can chose with ebooks. Paper novels are almost exclusively fully justified. |
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As for left vs full, I prefer full with hyphenation. If you prefer left, you're best to edit the CSS and change the alignment to left. If you use the justification setting in the Aa menu and set it to left, centered text will also be left and no longer centered. |
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No doubt other experts and other surveys reached other conclusions. Different people have different preferences. |
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Do you have a link? As for my view, ragged text on the right side of an eBook's screen doesn't work better for me, especially if the text is relatively large and the lengths of sentences vary widely. I can read ragged right text, but I prefer not to — at least not in eBooks. Ragged right is fairly common in web pages, but the lines are often much longer, so it's not really a one to one comparison. EDIT: I re-read your last post and see now why the SEC would be involved. I'll see if I can find the study with the hints you give in your post (Plain English Initiative). EDIT 2: I think I may have found the reference you're speaking about. But I'm guessing this is for an 8.5" x 11" page, with one column and 12 point text. In that format you will see gaps in the sentences if "justified," especially if it's a legal document using mono-spaced characters. A well formatted eBook, on the other hand, that's truly justified with a good font and reasonable hyphenation will have very few noticeable gaps. But if I'm missing something here, let me know. Last edited by rcentros; 07-12-2024 at 10:43 PM. |
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Go for the Boox go 7 colour. Not locked into an eco system, so have many choices avaliabe to you, plus since its android can load apps, Has SD card support also, so great if you have heaps of comics, etc. Far more verstile than any other ebook reader out there
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Also, like many Onyx, we have a Firehose loader for this.
That means you can make a full, raw backup of this and always recover from anything. Ok, making 32 GB or even 128 GB backups makes claims on your storage. Still, it's a life saver. |
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