Sentences with phrase «page than on screen»

Inherent Vice is the first time anyone has tried to turn Pynchon's notoriously thorny writings into a film; credit Anderson for ambition, but perhaps the author's style works better on the page than on screen.

In a visual device that may have worked better on the page than on the screen, Sfar has him imagining an anti-Semitic face with a huge hatchet nose, atop a small body in the form of a caricature.

I want to talk about how this structure perhaps worked better on the comic page than on screen.

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

Not exact matches

Adding great customization, search and curation capability positions Texture to reach beyond traditional magazine readers to a new audience of «people who almost exclusively consume their content on the screen, rather than off the page,» says Maich.

Interestingly, the character of Marianne is much less attractive on the pages of the script than the Marianne we both saw and heard on the screen: much more selfish, demanding, even cruel.

And instead of a storage device, the images (text or pictures) could be permanently displayed on these layers even with the power off, so that a document hundreds of pages long could be stored on the display screens themselves, and portable enough to carry around, no bigger than a small laptop computer.

The depth of the story he tells of Wiseau and his unusual relationship with the filmmaker — guided by co-writer Tom Bissell — is expectedly trimmed when transferring the movie to the screen, and, unfortunately, the background on Wiseau that Sestero details on the page is more interesting and fascinating than anything that made it to the screen.

With a raft of page - to - screen adaptations on the way, we try and predict whether the movie will be better than the book...

But, overall, these characters and situations likely worked much better on the page than they do on the screen.

In the epilogue centering on the fallout for her station coworkers and mother (J. Smith Cameron) that might work better on the page than screen, there's a lack of confidence in how to conclude her story.

Page Eight, the new selection on PBS \» «Masterpiece Contemporary,» is more beautifully filmed than most movies on the big screen, and the gorgeous cinematography, especially of London draped with electric light at night, cinched it as a closing night selection at this year \'s Toronto Film Festival.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

Her Katniss - on - the - screen is so much richer and more compelling than Collins's Katniss - on - the - page that it almost seems as though she's playing another character altogether.

In less than a page, and less than a minute of on - screen time, we immediately know how she feels about her.

It's broken up into four quadrants, each of which can be drilled - down for further information or to change settings, but it's very easy to back out and the screen on its home page displays all the information you're likely to need at any given time, other than trip computer data, which appears in a display located between the major dials in the instrument binnacle.

Tiny screen doesn't fit much text on the page; E-books more expensive than competition; Can't share book passages or lend books; Very small periodical selection

However, we found this e-reader prone to ghosting of a previous page's words, rather than flickering of an entire screen as on the Kindle Paperwhite.

With a resolution of 1872 x 1404 pixels, the screen offers crisp, sharp letters and high contrast with rich blacks and light whites.Even the smallest font size can be read perfectly, allowing you to display more text on a page than ever before.

It is a superior reading experience, much more convenient than traditional vertical page modes on bigger screens.

With more than 75 % of the screen's assets, the Illumina XL allows you to read more on one page or use larger fonts of 6 «normal e-readers.»

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Using functionality described in the specification, content can be formatted into a sequence of richly designed interactive pages, rather than being presented as a single scrolled container (as per the standard CSS formatting process for on - screen display) or as a scrolled container which has been simply split up into a sequence of pages (as per the standard CSS formatting process for printing).

And the ability to reach farther into the midsection of the page lessened the disadvantage of working with such a deeply inset screen (Amazon says that the inset was necessary for its touch technology — but it's noticeably thicker, by millimeters, than the inset on the competing Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch and Kobo eReader Touch Edition).

A full - white screen (as seen on many we pages) taxes OLED considerably to the point where we suspect the battery drain would be more than on the LED - backlit panel you have on the Tab.

Pages they can flick through, rather than flat pages printed from your design document, or viewed on screen.

The screen on an e-reader is e-ink, making it more like reading from a printed page than a computer screen.

Oddly, Philby has inspired more great fiction, on the page and on - screen, than good nonfiction.

Up till now, I have seen Guided View mainly as a way to make a print comic readable on a screen that's smaller than the standard page size: It allows the reader to pan across the page and zoom in on one panel at a time.

Won't a small ereader, like a six - inch, likely have a smaller battery than its larger cousins, and won't the smaller screen - size and use of larger fonts increase the number of necessary page - turns and therefore drain the battery quicker than on a larger device?

Yes, the Voyage has more contrast with whiter screen than the Glowlight Plus but on my Voyage the screen flashes at each page where the Nook is seamless page turning — flashing only when going thru menu changes.

The screen on the Apple iPod Touch is perhaps a little on the small side for book reading but zooming in on the text is easy enough and if you've ever read on a PDA then you'll be used to hitting the page turn a little more often than you'd like.

I'd rather have REAL 3G on the go worldwide than... what, brighter pages that use a touch screen (fingerprints on your books?!)

With 75 % more screen property, the Illumina XL HD allows you to read more on one page or to use bigger fonts than normal 6» e-readers do.

Repeating Paragraph Returns — Never use more than four consecutive paragraph returns (that is, hard returns, created by pressing the ENTER key) to arrange text on the page (this creates blank ebook pages on small - screened e-reading devices).

I personally like the tab - based design of the Chrome - based browser a lot, it allows a more convenient navigation experience than the usual browsers designed for tablets: in Safari for iPad, you have to click on an icon to access a page with your saved web pages thumbnails, then you can click on one of them to access the website, in the Playbook, you have to pull a virtual tray containing the web pages thumbnails by swiping the top part of the screen.

the sound effect appears isolated on a black screen, rather than at the bottom of a rather busy page, so the impact is increased.

When digital publishing first began experiencing its major growth spurt only a handful of years ago, many critics argued that a digital book was no better than its print counterpart, mostly since many e-publishers at that time were simply creating an identical page format on a screen - based devices.

That being said, the inkBook still suffers from the same kind of issues that all Android ereaders suffer from: most 3rd party apps don't work well because they aren't designed for E Ink screens; battery life isn't as good as non-Android ereaders; the page buttons only work with a few apps; and the Android software is less - optimized than what you get on Kindles and Kobos, and it lacks some features that they offer.

Granted it has a lower resolution screen, but it has a flush glass screen with page buttons on each side, and it weighs an impressive 37 grams less than the Paperwhite, making it more comfortable to hold.

Today's youth is more likely to be interested in reading something on a screen than something on a page.

Although some content, like browser pages, was viewed more often on larger 10 - inch tablets than on 7 - inch ones like the Kindle Fire, it's clear that Amazon's tablet is hugely popular compared to Android devices with larger screens and better specs.

When using it in stand mode, I simply tapped on the screen to flip pages rather than using the physical buttons.

For me, it's easier to spot errors on the white page than the screen, especially after a long period of working on a project.

For example, I'm seeing a fairly consistent behavior when tapping the «nook» button twice after turning a page: the last line on the screen (the one temporarily «obscured» by the navigation panel) looks noticeably darker / clearer than the lines above it (I want to say it is «as clear as can be» but that might be a little too sweeping a statement to make at this point).

The battery life is more than acceptable, the camera has been massively upgraded (although, obviously we don't recommend you use it), and the screen upgrades genuinely make viewing web pages or videos on the go a joy.

On a 27 ″ iMac screen, it's bigger than the printed page and looks great.

Some people prefer to use a hard copy dictionary, especially if they're editing on the page rather than on the computer screen, so you might want to try both and see which works best for you.

The InkBook Prime has a flush glass screen and a smaller more streamlined design that is nicer than the bigger and somewhat blockier Paperwhite, and it also adds two page buttons on each side of the screen, along with a sensor button below the screen that acts as a back button.

Holding back the SpringBoard, however, was its rendering of text captured from a Web page — in part because that image, like all others, rendered in a smaller size on the SpringBoard than on other tablets we've tested, due to the screen's higher resolution.