There has been a lot of discussion on the web about the Kindle's typographical qualities.<\/p>\n
I've never actually seen one of these devices directly, but I was struck by the full-page advert on the back of this week's New Scientist<\/cite>. It shows the latest Kindle with a page of text, which I immediately mis-read. It says<\/p>\n LET US START WITH the river-all things begin with the river…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The thing between 'river' and 'all' is too short to be a dash, so I read it as 'river-all' which doesn't make sense. There's another example of the same thing in the second paragraph.<\/p>\n And they still haven't got hyphenation working. Two lines remain unjustified because the software can't even split pre-hyphenated words.<\/p>\n I don't know how customizable the display is, but those things are enough to keep me reading the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n I see that Amazon have taken my advice. On the back of this week's New Scientist<\/cite>, the Kindle is displaying a very neat page of text with no dashes and no need for hypehenation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been a lot of discussion on the web about the Kindle's typographical qualities. I've never actually seen one of these devices directly, but I was struck by the full-page advert on the back of this week's New Scientist. It shows the latest Kindle with a page of text, which I immediately mis-read. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Update July 2011<\/h3>\n