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Originally Posted by Crowl
... reason why we haven't seen more large e-ink devices because unless you did have a full a4 reader then the greater flexibility of an lcd with regards scrolling, zooming etc. would tend to outweigh the downsides.
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Absolutely agree here. Lots of discussion in my household over whether to buy a Kindle DXG, with the device in the Amazon cart and us poised over the buy button.
But we were agreed in the end that 9.7" still isn't big enough for our key purpose, which is to read the many documents we receive (and buy) that are formatted for A4 or Letter print, without zooming and scrolling. This followed a few days trying out an iPad, and comparing with my eInk readers held in landscape, etc.
For eInk then, we're going to wait until there is a true A4 device. For now, the speed of zooming and scrolling on a tablet, plus the additional functionality, means that we're set on buying a good 10" Android tablet when one gets released. It's looking as though there should be a reasonable selection of these by next spring, and we can wait.
(The iPad was great fun, but the lack of USB or SD card file input was a deal-breaker for both of us, along with the whole iTunes ecosystem thing, which neither of us want.)
Graham