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Originally Posted by j.p.s
All good points, but width is more important to me than height, and the 7.8" Pocketbook 740 is a few mm narrower than the 7" Kindle Oasis 2.
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Hmmm.... the issue I was looking at was the comparison to 6" readers on the web pages happily quoting Pocketbook's sales puffery without stopping to do any real world comparison. On pocketbook.ru, they refer to 7.8-8" screen ereaders as heavy and bulky and comment the 740 is only slightly larger than a typical 6" reader. I used Google's autotranslation feature to read the page.
Another item I found rather funny was hyping the dual core processor. A few months back, I was looking at the Boyue Likebook Plus which is also a 7.8" device but using a quad core processor -- oddly a very similar device to the Icarus XL HD. I just would love to know how their automatic page turning is implemented.
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PocketBook 740 for the original page.
As for the asymmetric design of the Oasis 1 and 2, I gather that was done to put most of the weight of the ereader on one side with the page turn buttons making it easier to hold one handed. I've only handled an Oasis 2 on one occasion and I did find it comfortable to hold one-handed for that short period but then I hold my KA1 and Tolino Epos one-handed.