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I do a little reading on my 16:9 tablet. Not a lot but I don't have any problems with the size. It's too heavy to hold comfortably while reading so I don't do a lot of that.
I do quite a bit more reading on my 16:9 phone with it's 4.7" screen. Again, no problem except that it's an LCD which tires my eyes if I read too long. But this is mostly just short sessions.
I do most of my reading on a Kindle, which I much prefer because of the e-ink, but the size doesn't seem to matter to me much. I also did quite a bit of reading my my Kobo Mini before I sold it because I wanted a light. I was fine with that one too.
I read for years on an early Palm Pilot. It was fine.
I think this stuff about screen size, except possibly in situations where you need larger text, is the sort of thing where you look at it, think about it and decide it's too small.
I remember decades ago reading that the reason newspapers used narrow columns was that studies had shown that they were conducive to faster and more comfortable reading. I have no idea what studies or how many or how many may have shown otherwise. I don't even remember where I read that. But I think when I started reading ebooks (long before they were publicly available), I started thinking the small screens available to me were an advantage. I didn't have pre-conceived notions to overcome.
Of course this is just my experience. I can't know what reading is like to others. But this is how it seems to me.
Barry
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