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At what point would you acknowledge that maybe the large number of people who think they prefer full justification... actually prefer full justification?
I wasn't denying people's preferences. I was pointing out that it has an impact even if people don't notice the justification.
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I too fall asleep easier while reading on my Paperwhite. Rather annoying actually.
Did you try reading something less boring? ;)
It's not for the faint of heart, given the inaccessible brick-ness of the Kindle and its long, nerve-racking reboot time, but you can jailbreak your device and install KUAL (app launcher) and KOReader. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203326 https://github.com/koreader/koreader ePub and PDF support, text reflow/cropping/reformatting (great for papers!), plethora of options from contrast to margins, c…
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Yes, it fixes most of it. I would not say it's perfect either but it's much, much better than the default Kindle Viewer. it also gives you a lot more options on how to tweak the way it reflows text, as well as font choices. It makes it a much better device for reading.
Awesome, thanks. I'm going to give it a try.
It's not for the faint of heart, given the inaccessible brick-ness of the Kindle and its long, nerve-racking reboot time, but you can jailbreak your device and install KUAL (app launcher) and KOReader. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203326 https://github.com/koreader/koreader ePub and PDF support, text reflow/cropping/reformatting (great for papers!), plethora of options from contrast to margins, c…
Just don't ever connect it to a wifi. This will also keep the ads off it.
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Yes, you're right. Perhaps my original statement was a bit too extreme in that sense. I'd wager, though, that having the screen not be back lit at least reduces sleep disruption, that is, it fares better than backlit screens in that regard. I don't know if there are any studies that have proven this to be the case though.
I'm not sure what the mechanism would be here? What are you proposing?
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I wasn't denying people's preferences. I was pointing out that it has an impact even if people don't notice the justification.
What impact is that?
https://kaiweber.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/ragged-right-or-ju...
containing numerous links to academic papers showing lower test scores with right justification. I don't know if the author cherry picked only the articles favoring the authors opinion.
(edited to add, also try googling for the topic and "Dyslexia" where the conclusions seem fairly non-controversial and realize dyslexia is a spectrum disorder)
This is aside from the fairly obvious aesthetic argument that looking at ugly things (like right justified text) inherently lowers your quality of life.
On the side of left justification, it looks better, there seems to be at least some scientific data it reads better, and the argument why its easier and better to read makes sense. On the side of right justification we have crickets.
Perhaps there's a patent on displaying left justified text on an ebook, and merely by ruining the product by right justification, the patent can be avoided.
It's light, has nice type, a decent battery, it's rubberised case is easy to grip and non-slip.
It falls down epically on the store experience but since I side load with Calibre that makes not a jot of difference.
The kindle I had before had an incredibly slick shopping experience but in every other way was inferior.
To replicate the experience of the Kindle Voyage ‘button’ find an immovable surface in your house: a marble kitchen countertop will do. Place your thumb upon the surface, then press down – deforming your thumb. Not pleasant, is it? I don't follow. It feels like I'm pressing down on something. Of all the things I can think of that would cause an RSI, pinching a pressure-sensitive button seems low on the list. I also d…
I own a voyage, but can't come up with the answer to one simple question. In what way are those stupid little touch strips actually BETTER than real buttons? Since there's no actual physical feedback you can't tell how hard you have to press. They've tried to fix this by letting you set sensitivity levels, but that doesn't work great. Then I thought it would be a good idea to add a pager motor to fake physical feedba…