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Old 02-03-2009, 06:06 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I think the reason that books do use portrait orientation is that it reduces side-to-side eye movement to have a fairly narrow page, which makes reading more comfortable and less tiring.
Right, but my point there is that e-book devices don't need to have a comparatively narrow display in order to show narrow lines of text, at least not in the way physical books would waste so much paper if they didn't.
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