The news I'm reading about the Kindle 2 seems to dwell on the contrast issue; whether or not the type is easy to read. The gray background and the non-black type has been the cause of many discussions. One of the many fixes proposed is to change the font to a different bold-faced font, blackening the type to make it easier to read. At the time of this writing, changing the font requires a non-Amazon hack that can be reversed. I've thought about doing this,...

A little morsel to help your Kindle 2 reading...a way to change the spacing between the lines. No, you can’t change the kerning (space between letters) or font (not easily without involving a hack). But you can alter the line height, the distance between the lines. Adding more space may make it easier for some to read, and adding less allows more content per page. The command SHIFT + ALT + NUMBER changes the line spacing from less on the 1 side to more as the number increases. The default is 3. While 1 is too small,...

Welcome to TeleRead’s latest contributor, Dennis Hays, owner of Photo News Today. His bio appears at the end of this post. The Kindle photo is from Amazon. – D.R. When I was a child, my mother said I became so engrossed in reading books that I ignored everything around me---including her. I loved reading then and still do today. Behind me, as I write this, I have hundreds, if not thousands of books on shelves lining two walls of my office and another dozen boxes of books in the closet, unable to be displayed due to not having...