On a minor point, thank you for making the 2019 books have bigger page size! While there’s something neat about having little pocket-sized books (cf OUP’s Very Short Introductions), and I have good eyesight, some people would have found the print really hard to read.
Curious if you know anyone who specifically ran into the ‘hard to read’ problem? (I find it hard to read, but had been surprised we hadn’t gotten more explicit complaints)
No (though I don’t personally know anyone else who has the books).
It’s of course a matter of degree—I can read them, but small print makes them less easy for me to read. Though I also wonder if it may subtly affect people’s comprehension, without them realizing it. As is the case when sight-reading sheet music that’s printed small or in poor light: you make more mistakes, without necessarily realizing why.
On a minor point, thank you for making the 2019 books have bigger page size! While there’s something neat about having little pocket-sized books (cf OUP’s Very Short Introductions), and I have good eyesight, some people would have found the print really hard to read.
Curious if you know anyone who specifically ran into the ‘hard to read’ problem? (I find it hard to read, but had been surprised we hadn’t gotten more explicit complaints)
No (though I don’t personally know anyone else who has the books).
It’s of course a matter of degree—I can read them, but small print makes them less easy for me to read. Though I also wonder if it may subtly affect people’s comprehension, without them realizing it. As is the case when sight-reading sheet music that’s printed small or in poor light: you make more mistakes, without necessarily realizing why.