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Originally Posted by parkher
I explained in detail how to hold it in landscape. With finger numbers like how to play piano.
The whole point is that you don't even have to hold it - it hangs by itself on a completely relaxed hand, no chance of dropping it.
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I'm sorry, but you have no idea how large my hand is, what condition my joints are in, what my finger span is, nor how the style/shape/thickness of the case I have for the machine changes those aspects for me.
I don't like portrait on
any of my devices. I don't hold them that way and won't read them that way. No matter how many times you explain how it works for you.
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Originally Posted by parkher
As to portrait on 6".
Let's take a typical mass market paperback and measure the width of text in it: 8.8 cm.
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Why?
Seriously, I didn't get an eReader to exactly replicate a MMPB. Nor a hardback or trade size. I don't care for hardbacks or tradesize and don't buy them when I don't have to. I'd rather hold any of my eReaders than a MMPB, although those are the ones I buy for my 'keeper' shelves.
The importance is the look/feel/handling/fonts and size choices of each machine, not in any comparison to printed books.
I have not had a problem with portrait on any of my machines. I have a Trekstore Pyruse, a Kobo mini, kindlewhite, Nook glow, Sonys (prs-350, T1, T2) and have tried a few others as well.
Portrait or screen size isn't a concern for me under a certain size. I don't like the larger tablets, and just traded my full sized Ipad for an Ipad mini, which fits me much better. However, font style, size, the OS system and contrast are important, no matter what size of screen. The proportions must work, or it's not a machine I'll use.