Font of All Evil
Sep. 15th, 2013 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowFor the first time, I am displeased with my Kindle.
One of the first books I downloaded was George Boole's classic Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Like most mathematical texts at Project Gutenberg, it was in the form of a .pdf. Just now, I decided to read it. I paged past the usual Gutenberg stuff, then the table of contents, and finally arrived at Chapter One.
It is unreadable. The font is simply too small for these aging eyes. Normally this would not be a problem; Kindle has a menu allowing for changing the font as the user pleases. But -
that menu is not available for this work. I suppose it has to do with its being a .pdf; I haven't checked any of the other .pdfs I have, but that's the only explanation I can think of.
It's not a total loss. I can still read it on my home computer - but that is far less convenient.
Grmph.
One of the first books I downloaded was George Boole's classic Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Like most mathematical texts at Project Gutenberg, it was in the form of a .pdf. Just now, I decided to read it. I paged past the usual Gutenberg stuff, then the table of contents, and finally arrived at Chapter One.
It is unreadable. The font is simply too small for these aging eyes. Normally this would not be a problem; Kindle has a menu allowing for changing the font as the user pleases. But -
that menu is not available for this work. I suppose it has to do with its being a .pdf; I haven't checked any of the other .pdfs I have, but that's the only explanation I can think of.
It's not a total loss. I can still read it on my home computer - but that is far less convenient.
Grmph.
