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A review by saareman
Lanny by Max Porter
Did not finish book.
Warning Review: Avoid Microscopic Kindle edition
Review of the Strange Light Kindle edition (May 14, 2019) of the Faber & Faber hardcover original (March 7, 2019).
Ok, this is an exception as I almost never do DNF reviews, but I only got 10% or so into this Kindle edition with the microscopic curlicue fonts* which were just irritating and made me angry, so I abandoned the book in this format. This is a review about the format medium and not the book content. Perhaps on a tablet or large screen this would not be a problem but I enjoy the Kindle for its portability and I found it totally unreadable on the relatively small screen. I have put in for a library hold for the physical book instead.
If you are curious as to what I am talking about, here are some sample images:
Images are screengrabs from the Kindle mobile phone app as those were easier to screenshot, and not from the actual Kindle screen. The relative sizes between the regular font and the tiny fonts are the same on the slightly larger Kindle screen.
Footnote
* The texts in curlicue font are actually individual graphic images. Enlarging the font of the main text does nothing for the graphic images, they remain tiny. You would have to tap on each word or phrase individually as a graphic to enlarge it. I was not prepared to spend that amount of time on it.
Review of the Strange Light Kindle edition (May 14, 2019) of the Faber & Faber hardcover original (March 7, 2019).
Ok, this is an exception as I almost never do DNF reviews, but I only got 10% or so into this Kindle edition with the microscopic curlicue fonts* which were just irritating and made me angry, so I abandoned the book in this format. This is a review about the format medium and not the book content. Perhaps on a tablet or large screen this would not be a problem but I enjoy the Kindle for its portability and I found it totally unreadable on the relatively small screen. I have put in for a library hold for the physical book instead.
If you are curious as to what I am talking about, here are some sample images:
Images are screengrabs from the Kindle mobile phone app as those were easier to screenshot, and not from the actual Kindle screen. The relative sizes between the regular font and the tiny fonts are the same on the slightly larger Kindle screen.
Footnote
* The texts in curlicue font are actually individual graphic images. Enlarging the font of the main text does nothing for the graphic images, they remain tiny. You would have to tap on each word or phrase individually as a graphic to enlarge it. I was not prepared to spend that amount of time on it.