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Originally Posted by pondscum
Easy mental comparison: 6" screen == mass market paperback page, 8" screen == trade paperback or small hardcover book. If you want to read full page-sized PDFs (like academic journals or papers), you'll need something bigger than that.
I'm very happy with my Inkpad 3 (7.8" screen). I had a 6" Kindle for years before that and I sometimes still read on my older device, but the Inkpad screen is far superior. I do use the frontlight and a battery charge lasts for weeks on it.
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In my case 8" 300 dpi eink screen of Kobo Aura One (using Koreader app) is usually good enough even for reading full page-sized PDF (A4 or US-letter sized academic journals), because I don't mind reading two or three screens per pdf page (in landscape mode with margins completely cropped for A4 documents with 15-16 cm text width), or four screens per page (for two-column A4 pdf in portraite, using two-column mode, or zoom & panning for three or more column pdfs), or using pdf reflow mode (e.g. for single-column A4 documents with 17-18 cm text width) when the original text width is larger than approx. 16 cm (6.2 inch) screen width of 8" reader in landscape.
If our reader and its apps are good & fast enough we could also use zoom & panning instead of its multi-column modes, fit-to-content-width landscape mode, reflow modes etc.
Also, if there are a lot of colored tables, graphs, diagrams etc. then we should use our tablet as auxiliary device, if we still wanted to read the rest of pdf document on eink screen.