Thread: Forma New Kobo reader: The Forma/Shape
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Old 10-09-2018, 07:31 PM   #284
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Originally Posted by BadBilly View Post
which would be like having two four-inch readers side-by-side, no? Can't see much value in that. The landscape seems more useful for comics and PDFs, as well as the visually impaired. New code is new bugs, so leaving it out is probably smarter.
No, it is like having two 5.77 inch screens side by side, so almost the same as two of the old (still current?) standard 6 inch screens side by side. 8" screen is 4.8" x 6.4". In landscape, this can be laid out as two 3.2" x 4.8" screens. sqrt(3.2*3.2 + 4.8*4.8) = 5.769

The calculations might be easier to follow if we pretend the Forma has a 10" screen and
is 8" wide and 6" tall in landscape. That would be two 4"x 6"screens, or 7.2" diagonal.

The motivation is seeing as much text as possible between page turns without really wide lines.
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