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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Eh. Compared to a normal mass-market paperback (screw hardcovers and trade paperbacks - waste of money and waaaaaaaaaaaay too heavy), you lose just a bit less than a vertical inch on a Touch or Glo (same 3.5" width, though, assuming some idiot hasn't set fixed margins and the device doesn't override that setting like it should; ditto for line spacing and justiication)
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Since I had a paperback handy (Hal Clement's
The Nitrogen Fix), I measured the amount of the page used for text which came out at 9cm by 14cm. On my Glo, the area of the screen being used for text measured at 8.8cm by 11cm -- I don't believe in wasting much room on margins. The 14cm for the woodpulp book includes about .8 cm above the book text used for the author name/book title and page number.
For those who are interested, the book measures 10.5cm x 17.5cm when closed while the Glo measures 11.3cm x 15.7cm.
So not a major difference between the ereader and the paperback in terms of what I can see on the page at one time.
Regards,
David