Re: Bill Hill on why the browser is the reader

Lee, you hit the nail on the head with that one.  And it's another
reason I think that computers are more suited to reading ebooks than
monochrome readers, but that's a different can of worms.


Tony

--- In [email protected], Lee Passey <lee@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I think it more likely that this will be the reason that print will 
> continue to lose ground to electronic representations. Mr. Lewis finds 
> text is more legible when it's presented as white text on a black 
> background. Try changing that on a printed publication. I find that for 
> narratives a sans-serif font is less tiring than a serifed font. Try 
> making that change in a printed publication. And there are enough
people 
> who can't easily read standard print that there is a whole industry 
> dedicated to "large print" editions; an industry that simply won't 
> exists for e-books.
> 
> Electronic devices will continue to improve their legibility and 
> resolution, but print books will never be able to increase their 
> mutability. With print you can have "any color you want, so long as
it's 
> black." With e-books everyone can "have it your way."
> 
> -- 
> Nothing of significance below this line.
>




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