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Originally Posted by ProDigit
My apologies, I wasn't very clear on that one,
I meant to say that a 300DPI 7" screen gives trouble in reading, rather because the pixels are too small, than a larger (eg:14"), lower resolution (150DPI) screen where pixels become an issue.
At 150dpi, and quadruple the screen estate, the screen contents become more grainy, but font should become easier to see due to it being twice as large.
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I don't read that way. I pick a font size that is comfortable and go from there
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From a perspective that 7pt remains the same size on a large or small screen, yes, then the 150dpi screen will display the worst imagery.
However if the screen layout remains the same, and the text becomes twice as large on the 14" 150DPI screen, it'll be easier to read than the 7pt text on the 7" 300DPI screen.
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I would pick a font size that was comfortable on the 7" and 14". I find that the font size is relatively close between the two. The nice thing about the increased DPI is that it doesn't just work on small font sizes, it works on all font sizes.
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... I think what I'm saying is, that nowadays, DPI is good enough; even with 150DPI screens, the pixels are so small, that the smallest font readable, will be well below what you'd want to set your ereader to.
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Why settle for " good enough". My first reader was "good enough", but I appreciate that DPI, contrast, speed, software has improved.
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... Our main issue is screen estate.
I would probably prefer a 9" 200DPI screen, than a 7" 300DPI screen; even if there are more pixels on the 7" screen.
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I would probably prefer a 6" screen to a 7" and 9" screen. The last time I did the comparison, I picked on older pearl 6" over a Carta 6.8. When I upgraded my 6" from pearl to Carta, I appreciated the upgrade (which I assume was at least in part due to the increase in DPI).
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... Most regular books found in the store are about 8 to 9 inch.
Any ebook reader below that, is kind of scaling down the text or imagery, to fit their cramped, small screen.
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Measuring most of my books, they are about 7" with a lot of white space. My ebook reader doesn't scale down the text, mine scales the text up.