In 1939, the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?
For me what makes a big difference is that on my ereader I can use ragged right with consistent spacing between the words, reading like that is much easier on the eyes than a printed book where they are trying to over-optimize for space, aka all text is justified & every book has a different font.
and I live in koreader on my kindles, so I can freely set everything stock kindle software doesn’t want you to, such as margins + no need to use Kalibre to apply settings to epubs.
For me what makes a big difference is that on my ereader I can use ragged right with consistent spacing between the words, reading like that is much easier on the eyes than a printed book where they are trying to over-optimize for space, aka all text is justified & every book has a different font.
First things I do is disable hyphenation and switch to left alignment.
and I live in koreader on my kindles, so I can freely set everything stock kindle software doesn’t want you to, such as margins + no need to use Kalibre to apply settings to epubs.