I'm looking for an e-book reader, where I can enlarge the text to something as large as 18/20. Any ideas? ?
by E Book Reader on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment
I know nothing about e-book readers, and I can’t find this sort of information anywhere. If you own one, I’d like to know which brand and model you have and if it is capable of enlarging text and to what size.
Thanks
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I have a Sony Reader (PRS-505); it has a button that allows text to enlarge. It has three settings, which seem to be 100%, 125%, and 150% of original text size. I’m told that with PDFs, it’s 100-200-300%, or something like that, because most PDFs are made with such small text to start with. (Because the reader’s default view is "full page," and most PDFs aren’t designed with 3.5×4.8" pages.)
I think most of the e-ink readers (Sony, Kindle, iLiad, Hanlin, etc.) have a way to view books at larger-than-original size; I don’t know the details on the others, but the Mobileread.com forums do–that’s where I look for details about ebooks & readers.
The exact size that it gets blown up to depends on the original file. People who make ebooks from raw text can make them with any starting size, so they blow up to whatever works well for you. If you’re dealing with off-the-shelf ebooks, the options are more limited, but I believe most books designed for e-ink readers start at large-ish text (12 pt or so), so they blow up nicely. There are discussions about what people like–I prefer small text to start with; I can be happy with books designed at 8pt type. (I’m not sure if it’s still 8pts when it gets to the reader.) But a lot of people like the larger font sizes, and commercial ebooks tend to lean that direction.