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Old 04-17-2013, 07:50 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by medard View Post
Did you ever had a real book in your hand? Do you know how big and heavy a real book is?
If you only knew just how funny that question is to someone who's been reading for forty years...

I bought Stephen King's It in hardback, as soon as it came out. I know very well how big and heavy ent-corpse books can be. I've also read early ebooks on my old Palm T2, if you want to talk about small screens. (A couple of years back, I even had cause to read the PDF galleys of a novel on my 4th-gen iPod touch; that was painful...)

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Originally Posted by medard
The current 6 inch screen is much smaller than a book page, it's simply to small for someone who's used to normal books.
That's your opinion. As someone who uses both an iPad mini and a Kobo Glo on a daily basis, I prefer the size and weight of the Glo over the mini, and I prefer both to the heft of a hardback. I've got a Transformer TF101, too; it's much larger, much heavier, and not even in the running. I should also point out that I do quite a bit of my reading in bed, lying on my back; the weight difference between a mini and a Glo may seem negligible, but it makes a definite difference in that context.

This is an area where my nearsightedness works for me; I can crank the font size down on an e-reader and get a decent amount of text on each screen. I don't need the extra screen real estate...but I don't begrudge it to those who do. I'm just saying that the Aura isn't right for me.
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