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Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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I get it. I became a reader later in life. I now realize that what held me back from reading the most was holding the book. I know it sounds dumb but hard covers are too heavy, and keeping a paperback open at the page was annoying. I read magazines, newspapers and comics without issue, but hard covers and paperbacks I could not handle. Now, with ebooks and a slim e-reader, I read about two to three books a week when I have spare time.
Also, I don't have the bookshelf space for the amount of books I consume.
I totally agree. That and text size. When I switched to ebooks, I immediately rediscovered the joy of reading.
I just found the opendyslexic font. I am not dyslexic, but I am getting older and that font is so easy to read. It's crazy.
Never knew this existed or that fonts were a part of the dyslexia problem.
Indeed easier to read and looks cool too. A bit retro
Why not just get the books for free from the library?
I borrow many ebooks from the library.
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.