Quick answer
The biggest mistake with text direction and alignment is using an extreme value because it looks good for a moment. Test readability over a real page instead.
Changing alignment cannot fix a badly encoded book.
Mistake 1: changing too much at once
Change one setting, read, and compare. If you change four settings together, you cannot tell which one caused the problem.
Mistake 2: copying another person’s setup
Different screens and different eyes need different settings.
Use examples only as a starting point.
Mistake 3: judging from a preview
A clean settings preview is not the same as a dense chapter, table, footnote, or long paragraph.
Always test on real material.
Fix
Reset to a normal preset, then add back only the changes you can explain.
If one change clearly helps, keep it and leave the rest alone.
Detailed troubleshooting checklist
Work through the problem in this order: first check text direction and alignment itself, then the app, then Android or the device. Keeping that order prevents you from changing many things when only one part is wrong.
- Change one setting at a time.
What to remember
The answer does not need to be complicated. The useful result is that you can avoid settings that make reading harder even when they look attractive at first without repeating the same setup every time.
Run one complete real-world test
- For “Text direction and alignment: common reading mistakes to avoid”, test a normal paragraph, a heading, and a dense page instead of judging the setting from one clean screen.
- Check that links, headings, page position, and controls are still easy to recognize after the visual change.
- Read for several minutes before saving the setup; a setting that looks good for ten seconds may still feel tiring.
What a good result looks like
For “Text direction and alignment: common reading mistakes to avoid”, you should be able to read longer with less effort without losing your place or making the document harder to navigate.
For this guide, stop adjusting once the workflow for “Text direction and alignment: common reading mistakes to avoid” is clear, repeatable, and easier than the problem you started with.