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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Yes, I'd still prefer 4:3. It doesn't matter so much what it does, as what I want to use the device for.
Narrowscreen (for those of us who use portrait mode primarily) ,means that a 7" Nook Color will display a full page PDF at a physically smaller size than a 6" Sony Reader because most of the larger screen size is in the wrong direction. It defeats the purpose of a larger size.
Sure, it's better for video -and some times for web surfing - but those uses are less important to me than reading. So even a multi-purpose device is better for me with the 4:3 aspect ratio.
It's the double whammy of what's more important to me as a user, and that the drawbacks of "widescreen" on PDF outweigh the benefits it brings to video.
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thanks for expressing it exactly as I see it. The whole widescreen thing is a just a way to charge more for less screen real estate anyway. It looks great on the spec sheet to Joe Consumer but to anyone who is not new to the whole ereader world it's not the way to go because as you say it totally does not deliver on the purpose for a larger screen on your ereader.
I was able to find a laptop that was NOT 16:9 but 16:10 instead and it's amazing the difference that makes to the actual square-footage of the display with the difference being it's a lot taller. This is the closest I was able to find to a 4:3 screen which is near to impossible to find in a new laptop, even business build systems. But to be honest, I would be fine with a reader that uses a 16:10 ratio if it was at least 10" or better 11"-12" as my large screen device for reading. It's perfect for a 17" display that I have on all my laptops.