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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
You dream big! I would love a reader like that but think it's unlikely Sony will jump back into offering alternate screen sizes.  |
i would love for sony to make one that's fit for letter size pdfs so that no reduction would be necessary to display the document (remember the announcements of the plastic logic que and the skiff ereader?)
i held out for one of these two until it was announced that both were killed due to the release of the ipad. the skiff ereader was supposed to have an 11" screen. with that screen size, it's close to the content displayed on a sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper with 1" margins all around.
but alas, no one is ready to go paperless.
the "large" screen ereader i purchase in consolation was the prs-950 with a 7" screen. i also now have the onyx boox m92 because the prs-950 is simply not adequate in handling technical books in pdf format. and the m92 (9.7") still has to reduce the size of the original pdf page in order to fit.
my wish is for sony to market an 11" ereader so that the need to print to paper will be drastically reduced. add to that a front light, and the ability to install custom fonts. in addition to the formats they currently support, add .mobi support (and maybe chm/html formats), and a native microsoft office document viewer (for .doc/x, .xls/x, .ppt/x files).
businesses would be lined up out the door for such a product. that was the intent of the plastic logic que.