At the same time I enjoy taking note of brand-name readability, shelf positioning, the attention-drawing power of competing package designs.

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But a spat about how important readability is to high-class fiction - as the Booker chair Stella Remington discovered last year - will do.

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We'll admit that Apple's solution is easier on the eyes, but accuracy trumps prettiness (and occasional at-a-glance readability) any day.

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The DX, by contrast, has black-and-white electronic ink display built for easy readability.

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Readability and eye strain with non-Windows 8 applications: The Surface Pro was designed to run Windows 8 applications natively.

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This is the remote-readability of the chip, combined with the lack of encryption of the data held on it.

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Both services are, in essence, the spiritual heirs of a browser plug-in called Readability.

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Every font on Kindle Paperwhite is hand-tuned for maximum readability.

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The Pebble team calls its watch's display an e-paper display, in order to highlight its readability in direct sunlight.

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The Kindle's readability has recently improved and its priced has been lowered. (See "The Coming E-Book Boom").

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The secret to Pebble's weeklong battery life and daylight readability is a technology similar to what's penetrated the lives of bookworms young and old: an e-paper display.

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