Quote:
Originally Posted by DNSB
4:3 is just a gimmick by Apple? I seem to remember a time not so long ago when 4:3 was the aspect ratio for monitors--remember when 1024x768 was high resolution? 640x480? 800x600? 720x350 (bonus points for remembering which graphics card used that resolution and why the second number was actually 348).
Perhaps you can remember any number of tablets that were released prior to Apple's first iPad that sported a 16x9 aspect ratio?
My personal opinion is that 16x9 in portrait mode is just too tall and too narrow. Justifying text gives too many lines with massive chunks of white space. Admittedly, this is using a 2013 Nexus 7 which has a 1980x1200 (16x10) screen but I suspect making the screen even narrower is not going to help.
|
The gimmick is that the 4:3 is the ratio of books & the 4:3 gets one to read an ebook like reading a book. Never mind everyone's eyesight is different & that some of us read a book for its content & not ratio of display or format. I recall it was posted that the Nook HD+ was even different like more in the 3:2 ratio; never measured nor care. I do find my Tab S2 a bit "fat" sometimes.