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Originally Posted by HarryT
Please don't make assumptions about what "we all" want  . I don't want a larger screen - the 6" screen is the perfect size for a fiction reader. One of the reasons I sold my iLiad (which has an 8" screen) was the fact that it was too large to carry around with me all the time, as I do the Gen3 (which has the same screen as the Sony). |
I don't think a large screen necessarily means a larger device. There is alot of available space taken up in the current device with buttons. The screen could be made longer to fill most of the front of the device. I know screens are not made that size now, but this is a wish list. The all important thing is to display as much text as possible without increasing the device size. Also, I would not want the font sizes to be smaller - I find the current smallest size just about OK, any smaller and I would have to strain to read it.
The buttons would obviously have to be moved/made smaller. The existing right hand page turning buttons are in the wrong place for me and give me RSI - they are too small and fiddly. I'm not a fan of touch sensitive screens. Perhaps the edges of the device could be made touch sensitve, e.g., so running your finger along the edge would turn the page - this would be much more like turning the page in a pbook.
For future e-ink devices I would like one that opens like a book so you have two screens worth of reading for each page turn. This would probably have to be a Plastic Logic type screen to save weight, with a hinge in the middle. Even with PL screens I think this would have to be two separate screens I don't think they will take being folded flat in the middle.