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Originally Posted by medard
I miss the T3 right now.
I'd prefer a larger reader, 8-inch or bigger. 6-inch is too small for daily reading, at least for me. I tried landscape mode, but for me that feels even more different than a normal book.
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In landscape you also need a bit wider margins, at least 1 - 1.5 cm - then you actually have a part of a printed book page. Not the whole page, but 19-20 lines, which is almost half of a page. 19 lines - a pretty regular size font, like in the majority of printed MMPBs.
So I'd rather have half of a page that really looks and feels like half of the real book page. Alternative - still not a complete page, only a few lines more, but no feel of a real book because the text is too narrow and the margins are too narrow too. And the huge advantage of hanging the reader on your finger is also absent in portrait.
As to the size: yes, I would like 8" too. But 6.8" Aura is almost there:
I can have the usual for MMPBs text width and still have 7mm margins on both sides. Such margins are more or less sufficient. So I get the feel of reading a real book on Aura. The problem is that the screen should be the same width but longer/taller - on Aura the whole page still does not fit.
I got rid of the bottom line with the page number, but still can fit only 32-35 lines of text, depending on the font size. And printed books have at least 38 lines, often more like 43 lines or so. So 8" could be in one direction, really. Although I would not mind having wider margins either.
On 9.7" I actually have the whole page of a real printed book in its natural size and very wide margins around it on all four sides, 2cm+ margins.
It is really great. The only thing I don't like about 9.7" is its weight. I prefer T2 in lanscape because it hangs on the finger end weighs nothing compared to 9.7" which is 0.5 kg + 0.5 kg cover = 1 kg.
T3 will be the same 6", it seems.
But I read that Sony is going to release a reader with 13.3" flexible screen.
Also a bit strange - way too large for fiction books, but not yet A4 which is 14.3" or so.