Travis and Michelle Fitzgerald's blog

Reading

Overall, I’m happy with the text presentation: it feels more like reading ink on paper than pixels on a screen. I haven’t had any problems in bright light (except for a slight screen glare in bright, offset light) or reading in the car. I really like being able to change the size of the text ? a couple of times when my eyes it was a relief to crank up the font.

One downside is that with the font size I’m most comfortable with there are 20 lines per page. Most of my paper backs have at least 25 lines and more commonly about 35 lines per page, so I’m flipping a lot more often on the Kindle. Somewhat surprisingly, that really screws with my sense of where things were in the book. I would have thought that I would calibrate to the pages of whatever format I’m reading, but on the Kindle I tell myself, “That was just a few pages back,” and then I page and page and page and page to find it again!

There is a Go to Location feature, but I haven’t found it useful yet since there is no standard number of locations per page (I just checked two books: one has 3/pg and another has 7/pg) and I just don’t associate the locations with the text. The Search feature, on the other hand, is marvelous! Type in a word or phrase and it gives you a list of results in two lines of context with hotlinks to the locations. Feels a bit like cheating, but who cares?