Questions tagged [display]
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Are there studies that show whether reading ebooks on e-Ink, LCD, SLCD or AMOLED displays are better for eyes?
When people review different cell phones, they usually look at whether a specific display type (e-Ink, LCD, SLCD that HTC uses or AMOLED that Samsung uses) is better or worse for image quality.
But is there any data - preferably medical research -…
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What does the extremely fragile glass do in Kindle3's pearl e-ink display?
I've recently seen two great tutorials that disassemble the Kindle 3 for repairing. One is this great Fix your broken Kindle Keyboard Screen tutorial by ghwhitcher, and the other is the Amazon Kindle 3 Take-apart Guide by Powerbook Medic.
Both warn…
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Big screen dimensions or high DPI for vision impaired users?
I'ld like to get my dad an ebook reader for Christmas. Yet, he is a bit vision impaired which means that he only has a good reading experience with bigger and sharper/clearer/more-acurate font rendering.
To be sure the display renders the fonts as…
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What design patterns exist for responsive web design of ebooks?
What design patterns, best practice etc. exist for responsive web design of ebooks? I am creating an ebook with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript that should be readable well at different devices (browser, tabled, smartphone...) with different sizes and…
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Did Kindle contrast get better or is my old Kindle growing old?
I have a 4th generation (iirc) basic Kindle which I bought new. My mom has a newer, also basic, Kindle that is now one year old, also bought new. The screen of her Kindle looks lighter / whiter than mine, and the writing feels darker/blacker. Is it…
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What is the most paper-like display resolution for e-book?
What is the paper-like display resolution for e-book reading? Meaning, the resolution where the text display is 100% indistinguishable to average human with 20/20 vision from a regular paper book.
If the answers differ between different screen…
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Are there studies on the optimal amount of rows/columns per page?
Are there studies on the optimal amount of rows/columns per page as far as usability ease of reading of large ebooks (e.g. hundred+ pages)?
I can see at least three distinct factors playing into this (may be more):
The physical necessity of…
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Reading annotations in Calibre
I have installed the Annotations plugin for Calibre.
I have added an annotated ebook from my Kobo Aura H2O device to my Calibre library. Then I imported annotations from the device and Calibre said that it had added them as comments.
How can I…
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Kobo H2O and symbol
I just got a mail from a person who told me that - while reading with a Kobo H2O an ebook I wrote - he could not see the character aleph in "ℵ0", and moreover the reader would not get past that page. (The ebook reads fine with the Firefox plugin,…
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