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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
However large phones are getting these days, they're still smaller than my smallest ereader (5" reader). Also, my ereaders are 4:3 format, not 16:9 or even worse 18:9 (that seems toe be the choice of screen these days apparently). And last but absolutely not least, battery life. I can take a few weeks before I have to charge my ereader, my phone will be dead by 2 days, even without use.
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I'm firmly in the ereader camp, but depending on your exact devices, the screen difference may not be all that large. I'm attaching a photo of my phone and my most used ereader. As you can see, the phone is narrower, but taller. I agree with you that 4:3 is nicer for most reading for sure. It especially helps the justification when it has more letters and words to work with.
Now on to the important topics
As far as
liseuse goes, I guess it depends where you Google it from or what your search history is like because I get mention of the Kobo Aura One in the very first result. It definitely isn't slang in Canada as both The Source (ie: what was once upon a time Canada's branch of Radio Shack) and BestBuy list them for sale under that name. Mind you, I didn't have to actually Google it since I understood TS from the beginning; posters insert snips of other languages all the time. I don't know why this particular instance caused a kerfuffle.
As far as e-reader versus ereader goes, e-reader should never have become au courant as the name of electronic reading devices in the first place if eReader had been on the ball and protected their trademark vigilantly. And if the word e-reader came first, then they shouldn't have been granted the trademark.
Either way, even Kobo refers to their devices as eReaders (see
https://us.kobobooks.com/) so I certainly have no trouble calling them that. Hyphens tend to disappear over the long run in any case (does anybody still type e-mail instead of email?)
Staples seems to use the variants interchangably too (
https://www.staples.ca/en/Tablets-eR...5_2-CA_1_20001) as do other storefronts I visited...