On Thursday, 3rd March 2011 at 07:44:01 (GMT -0800 PST), Michael S. Hart wrote:
all you need to recover from any eyestrain is a little rest
All right, but it's undeniable that different reading circumstances are likely to produce different levels of eye strain. For example, reading at night all the time is likely to produce more eye strain than reading only in daytime using natural light. Or, reading on the iPhone (small letters) is likely to produce more eye strain than reading on the iPad (larger font). And, finally, reading from a screen that is *not* back-lit (Kindle) is likely to produce less eye strain than reading from an LCD screen that *always* produces some kind of a glare, no matter how minimized. That's what's important for me, and that's why I read books on my Kindles in daytime, on the iPad after it gets dark, and on the iPhone while on-the-go. And Calibre helps me maintain the 4 copies of every book on all 4 devices. :-) On Thursday, 3rd March 2011 at 16:49:42 (GMT +0100), Keith J. Schultz wrote:
You might be be surprise if the [Kindle] software was as good on an iPad!
But it isn't. I own it. It's pitiful right now, although they've been trying to improve it slowly over the last few months. I've mentioned a number of specific examples over the last few days as evidence why the Kindle app, for now, is low-quality software that can't compare with the hardware Kindles. Imagine what would happen if the hardware Kindles displayed atrociously wide margins around the text, wasting lots of screen real estate (which is particularly irksome on a small device such as a telephone). If the hardware Kindle committed this same error that the Kindle app commits, Kindle readers wouldn't be bestsellers, and hardly anyone would buy them. It's mind-boggling how bad-quality and deficient the Kindle app is at this point (and the same goes for iBooks). Stanza is the best reader software for the iPad/iPhone, but its annotation capabilities are poor as well, compared to what the hardware Kindle offers. -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [processed by "The Bat!", Version 4.2.10.12]