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Old 05-25-2019, 11:48 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by crane3 View Post
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.
Hmmm... I have some trouble believing that Apple was influenced by the 4:3 ratio of books especially when I could find few physical books with that aspect ratio looking through my collection. Looking at the Wikipedia entry for books sizes, I could find none of the "standard" sizes that translated to a 4:3 aspect ratio though a couple of trade books came close. The North American letter size paper comes close but would need to be a titch taller while A4 size paper needs to be a titch shorter--21.59x28.79 for letter size, 21.0x28.0 for A4 size compared to the actual 21.59x279.4 for letter and 21.0x29.7 for A4.

If you can supply a source or two for your claim about this being an Apple gimmick, I'll be more than willing to listen though given the original iPad display was 768x1024 which was a pretty standard resolution at the time it was released, I suspect finding any sources is going to be pretty hard to do.

As for reading a book for it's content, I can't think of a time that I chose to read a book due to it's format or aspect ratio. I've read thousands of dead tree books where none of those factors were in my control. The nice thing with ebooks is that I can change the format to suit my tastes such as ragged right, non-indented first paragraphs, etc. if I find it truly offensive to my eyes.

And please don't bring up the "my TV is 16x9" so I want my other devices to have the same aspect ratio. That one has been kicked to death on this site for a decade.
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