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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would sound a note of caution and say that the larger the screen, the poorer the performance of front-lighting (due to the physics of light diffusers). They work pretty well up to around about 7", significantly less well for anything much larger. If you don't plan to read PDFs, there's really no need for a larger screen.
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Hi HarryT, I appreciate very much your interacting with my posts and am thankful to learn that larger screens may not be as well lit as smaller ones. I guess it has to do with the fact that e-readers, unlike smartphones and tablets, are not lit up in each pixel, but are lit up on the edges of the screen.
Yes, I don't plan to read PDFs. I just thought a larger screen meant less "next-paging". I like seeing more stuff/text at one time. To share an anecdote, I feel I'm more productive when I'm on a desktop computer with two 20-plus-inch monitors as opposed to when I'm working on a 15-inch laptop.
Again, I'm thankful for your helpful comment that larger screens suffer from poorer illumination than smaller ones. That's something I should keep in mind in my shopping.