| ▲ | tombert 6 hours ago |
| I read a lot, and I own a lot of physical books, but I almost never actually read physical books anymore. I'm one of the happy few that used my Kindle for more than a week after getting it as a gift. I find that reading on an ereader is many times easier for me, primarily because I can make the text gigantic and I don't lose track of my place on the page nearly as often. I'm not dyslexic (I've been tested), but I do think that there's some issue with my brain where if the text is small I really can't follow it. On all my computers the text is gigantic and even then I will click and highlight text as I'm reading so don't lose place. I would love to be paid to read but I don't think I'd love to be paid to read physical books. I remember my grandmother was wholly unconvinced that my Kindle was a different thing than an iPad or a Game Boy, and that it was not "real" reading, for whatever reason. |
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| ▲ | mulderc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| One thing I do with my students is show them how to adjust text size and have them try out larger sizes. I think a surprisingly large number of people have never even attempted to change the text size on their devices and many can benefit from something different than the defaults. |
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| ▲ | tombert 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I sort of discovered this accidentally twice. First was when I go the Kindle I realized I could make the text as big as I wanted so I would do that, as stated before. Another time is when I wanted an external monitor and I bought a big TV because it was much cheaper. Because the TV was bigger the text was also bigger, and I realized how much easier it was for me to work. I think I used to feel like there was a "coolness" factor to keeping the text small. I don't know why I thought that, but I think what's much cooler than having lots of small text is actually being able to read and understand the text on the screen. Now I have no desire to impress anyone, and I keep my text in the browser at like 200%. | |
| ▲ | cheschire 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even on computer monitors, I always bump the scaling to 125% on modern high resolution screens. | | |
| ▲ | juujian an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 150% gang here. Actually 200% on my laptop but the resolution of that display is just ridiculous. | |
| ▲ | mulderc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I tell everyone to set it to what you find comfortable and then adjust it up a notch. |
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| ▲ | matwood 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't have a Kindle, but I've been reading books exclusively on my phone since I had a 3gs IIRC. I've increased the text size over the years and love having the 2-3 books I'm typically reading at once readily available. |
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| ▲ | walt_grata 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I swap between kindle and audible daily. The syncing is generally good, byt i have had issues with some books. This alone has caused my reading to skyrocket. I swear i do 1-2 books a week this way |
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| ▲ | damontal 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What’s annoying is when you want to look back at something earlier in the book. Then you have to use the clunky search and hope you don’t lose your current place. |
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| ▲ | tombert 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | KOReader has bookmark support; if I need to go back a few pages (or use the search), I'll just set a bookmark for my current place so I can easily jump back. | | |
| ▲ | damontal 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right so now we need a workflow to do something as simple as looking back a few pages. I know it’s necessary but it’s definitely a regression. | | |
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The constraint here is the e-ink refresh rate. That constraint does not exist on regular screens, which is why I'm surprised neither mobile reader apps or even desktop software takes purposeful advantage of it: fast scrolling back with fine, per-page control, keeping page in-place and zero perceptible latency rendering full page. With a finger drag or click&drag movement, this can easily be even faster than with paper books. I know this works because I've seen it with some PDF readers on desktop in the past, when I lucked into a combination of lightweight document and right "fit page to display" scaling. And, of course, this works natively in browsers with PgUp/PgDown, but only on the few remaining websites that haven't been thoroughly shittified (no "en-" there on purpose) with JavaScript and excessive styling. | |
| ▲ | tombert an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To each their own, it has never really bothered me honestly. | |
| ▲ | wiether 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When you go back in a physical book, you also put a bookmark (either an actual bookmark or one of your finger) to be able to resume reading where you were, no? |
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| ▲ | lofaszvanitt 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| An you bought one for her. |
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| ▲ | tombert an hour ago | parent [-] | | Ha, no, I actually don't talk to that grandmother anymore and probably never will again since she's extremely racist and doesn't like my (Hispanic) wife. I wouldn't buy her gifts at the best of times. | | |
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