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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Why would you be concerned over a slightly different aspect ratio? The physical size is the same as the previous 10.5" and the screen width is the same. The screen has a smaller border which allows the larger screen. The ppi is the same on all iPads these days so there is no difference is text size. The only difference is you might see some narrow black bars on the cover picture and a few more lines on regular reflow pages. I included it in the 4.3 list in the wiki Screen sizes sizes. The 11" model is more suited to Euro standard paper sizes so PDF may be slightly better.
Dale |
PPI on the larger sized iPads is 264, but it is 326 on the mini 2 through mini 5 iPads. Probably not enough difference to matter for most people though.
I agree that 4.3 x 3 is really close to 4 x 3 and shouldn’t be that noticeable. A tablet with 16 x 9 would be noticeably different though as 4 x 3 is the same as 12 x 9, so 16 x 9 would look stretched out. Probably nothing wrong with that, but it would mean fewer lines on the pages if in landscape mode, but that might not bother some people. I used to read in landscape + W column mode on my Nexus 7” tablet and it wasn’t too bad, but I do like the 4 x 3 of my iPad mini 5 much better for landscape + 2 columns.