Two Fiction Reading Queries

[riverfox]

1. Which do you prefer when reading fiction from a website?

• Black font on white background?


• White on black?


• Dark Grey on white?


• blue on white?


• black on light grey?


• dark color on light color other than white?


• Another preferred color combo?

2. When it comes to reading offline, do you use the webpage, or would you like to have a .pdf or .docx download option?

Comments

[brootang]

I personally like either white on black or pale writing on other dark colour.

If reading offline I read on my PDA, usually I cut and paste it from the website and save as a Word document for this, as its easy to change the font on the PC and then just transfer onto a memory card for reading.

[discodiva76]

The only trouble I have is with white on black...I actively avoid sites with this..it hurts my eyes and I find the reading of it almost impossible...

I like a pale neutral colour for a background with dark/black writing ...

I do the same as brootang...I copy and paste to Word from the website page and save it to transfer to either my Tomes app on the iPad or over to my little Sumvision...I did this when I got my Sony E Reader as it was the easiest way to copy the docs over and I'm such a dinosaur with tech stuff I've stuck with what I know....


xoxoxoxo

[ivorygates]

Grey type on a light bg makes me want to go and hunt down the page designer and rip out every single one of their fingernails with pliers. It is VERY VERY HARD TO READ if you have intermediate vision problems. And this (you may have guessed by now) makes me very cranky.

Black type, please, on a very pale (but not glaring white) bg. Very pale grey [bg] is okay, as is very pale blue or green (are you old enough to remember the days when some of the paperbacks were printed on "Easy Eye" paper?).

My .02.

White on black, no; it's hard to *see*, let alone read.

[jdjunkie]

Anything except white on black ... my eyes! Preference is good old black on white (well, I am a newspaperwoman *g*)

I do like a pdf option. :-)