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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
I meant cellphones. E-Ink readers tend to be five or six inches diagonal, as is the established standard for screen size measurements when no additional qualifications are supplied. As I mentioned, my prs-650 is 91mm, or about 3.6 inches, wide. It's perfect for reading. As in, Sony actually made a device that is so good it precludes the sale of its successors.
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Side note:
Sorry for the confusion of units. Specifying measures in different units tends to get commonplace when you use American software and printers in a metric country, no-one ever bats an eye. I've actually seen "PC LOAD LETTER" on a real x4510 in our office. It's meaningless no matter where you live. Oh, and of course we used A4, which the printer supported... Unit conversion should be a piece of cake to understand for people adept at producing epubs, however  |
I simply never think of reading devices, or any tablet device, in diagonal measurement, as for my purposes--e-readers--that would be
truly meaningless.
I mean, when you think about it, from a e-reading standpoint, what do we measure in our ePubs diagonally? Nothing. We don't set the ems for images in terms of the diagonal; nor the height or width; we don't set body tags diagonally...everything is in terms of height and width, I think? (I've always found it, long before the advent of the tablets/reading devices, an equally useless measurement metric for monitors and televisions, as well--
deceptive. Makes them sound larger than they are, even when you
know what it truly means.)
With so many people using their dedicated devices in landscape mode, I simply wanted to ensure that we were discussing apples and oranges. I'm also not that familiar with the less-popular devices, or those that are very popular for ePUBs in Europe, so I wanted to be clear on what aspect (pun intended) we were talking about.
Back to the actual discussion: we test our books on cellphones as well as the larger devices. It's clear that younger people are reading on cellphones in increasing numbers. We do test our books on various cellphones, smaller tablets and cellphone readers, but it's mostly for my own peace of mind. Given the vast number of reading apps out there, I think all any conversion house or publishing company can do is aim at the larger 4 retailers: Amazon, B&N, Kobo and then either iBooks/Sony (depending on country). After that, if you try to get your books to be perfect on every possible reading app for every cellphone and device, you'd go mad.
My $.02, FWIW.
Hitch