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Originally Posted by llasram
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.  |
I'm afraid I'm rather unclear about why you don't like portrait orientation for eBook devices. It seems the "natural" way to do it, given that this orientation has been proven by centuries of experience in printed books to be what works best.
Of course, there's no "technical" reason why an eBook reader couldn't have a display which could be rotated between portrait and landscale orientation (as, for example, the iPod Touch does automatically), but I'm sure that for the majority of reading material (there are exceptions, of course) portrait orientation works best.