Once I started digging in to why everyone seems to crank up the font size on the Kindle, more and more evidence has been sent my way. I want to thank Kerrie Smith, the Australian teacher and LEO at Education.au, for pointing out another significant research compilation on the importance of variable text size. This…
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It’s Not the Kindle, Stupid! It’s the Text…
by Will DeLamater
As a blogger on a topic tied to a specific device, the Kindle, it has been easy to overlook the real hero of the ebook revolution, and that is the digital text itself. The virtues of ebooks for schools reside not in the features and benefits of a specific reading device, despite what the pundits…
Font Size Poll Results
by Will DeLamater
Thank you to everyone who voted. It looks like we have a group that likes those larger fonts, with over half of the votes coming in for the #3 and #4 fonts. According to our font size chart, this means that our readers’ preference is for fonts in the 11 point to 14 point size.…
Five Tips for Navigation on the Kindle – #2: Flipper Options
by Will DeLamater
OK, so now you know how to use the Enhanced Progress Bar to jet around the book you are reading. If it is a big text, then this is an immense help. Otherwise, you are left clicking “next page” like the flipper button on a pinball machine. Once you are in the vicinity of where…
A Thinker’s Blog for the Kindle
by Will DeLamater
After canceling out of the blogs I’ve been reviewing before the “free trial” ended, I signed up for another batch. One I find to be very interesting, Stanley Fish’s blog Think Again from the New York Times. It looks like Fish, a professor at Florida International University in Miami, and whose book Surprised by Sin:…
Kindle Font Size and Student Reading
by Will DeLamater
The ability to read a book, a newspaper, whatever, at a congenial font size is part of what makes the Kindle such a pleasure to use. The demographics of older readers with aging eyes like my own make this a strong incentive to get involved with electronic (and configurable) text. But what about students? Research…
Font Size Chart for Kindle
by Will DeLamater
Everyone knows a couple of things about font size on the Kindle. 1) You can change it to suit your fancy and 2) the Kindle has six font sizes to choose from, more than the Sony reader. You may also know, if you follow this blog, that my persoanl favorite font size for reading is…
Highlighting on the Kindle Across Pages
by Will DeLamater
Can’t do it. If you hit scroll the select wheel up to a line on a page of text that you are reading and click it, a menu will pop up that offers the option to “Add Highlight.” When you click that selection, the Kindle will place a highlight line above the line of text…