Wanted: suggestions for calibre/linux compatible ebook reader

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 18:26:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 17:50:14 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
>>7/8 inches?  
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm using 2 iPads, not as a screen reader, but for drawing and
>music productions. one is 9.7-inch and the other 12.9-inch sized iPad.
>Today I'm 53 years old. I need reading glasses +1.5 diopters and
>sometimes even more. When I became 40+ I needed to use reading glasses
>+1.0 diopters, the situation back than wasn't better related to mini
>screens.
>
>For reading purpose a screen reader is probably way better than an
>iPad, but regarding font sizes and the amount of text that could be
>displayed without a page break, let alone scrolling (especially
>horizontal scrolling) within in a site, they are most likely all the
>same.
>
>For young people with excellent eyes the size is more or less
>irrelevant, but for aged people it most of the times is very important.
>
>For my taste 12.9-inch are not optimal, but they are at least a
>tolerable minimum, if I want to read a text. +1.5 diopters isn't very
>much, but already enough to suffer from small fonts, even when using
>reading glasses.
>
>There are al lot of things I can already do with the small 9.7-inch
>iPad, but for reading a text or script, anything below 12.9-inch is a
>PITA and even 12.9-inch are not optimal.
>
>I've got paperbacks smaller than a 9.7-inch screen. They are no fun to
>read either, but at least the formatting of the printed texts is
>optimized, so they are comparable to the reading quality of a
>12.9-inch iPad. In my experiences variable auto-formatting (even
>without the need of horizontal scrolling) is less good than the
>formatting of small paperbacks that are a little bit smaller than a
>9.7-inch screen.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf
>

PS: Keep in mind, when wearing reading glasses you can not change the
position of the head very much, if the font is relatively small.
reading glasses don't have got an auto-focus, the reader needs to keep
the distance optimal or to enlarge the fonts, to allow less optimised
focus. So if you are lying in your bead and want to enjoy reading a
text, without getting muscle cramps, the font size must be very large.