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Originally Posted by anacreon
I love the Sage, even though it is a heavy, and has a poor battery life. I don't think I will go back to 7". I still have the Libra H2o, but I never use it, although it is easier on my hands, because I prefer to read with a decent margin all around my books, and my old eyes need a decent pitch: the extra inch means an extra 30% real estate. Plus it has a yellowish screen even with comfort light at 0.
Also, I like to have all my library on the devices and 8 Gb is not enough (presently I am at 20 Gb available).
I love my Elipsa too, which I can't take with me in public transport, but which is fine while seated at home. I use it to read different books : most PDFs are not readable on anything less than 10" (56% more real estate than the 8"), though for some PDFs I need to read in landscape mode, half a page at a time. Conversely, some PDFs built for 6" devices are unreadable on 10" but ok on 8".
For some kepubs as well (I prefer kepubs to epubs), I need the Elipsa:
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I've been hunting after people like you who use the Elipsa for home reading to decide whether to get one myself, but there are very few reviews by those who would use it the same way I would.
My experience has been that publishers will sometimes lock their margins so they're not adjustable with the manual margin adjustment slider.
I'm guessing many here have the knowledge and sophistication to adjust the margins in Calibre, but most do not. For those of us who don't want to fiddling with software to read, having a larger screen can be an insurance policy against publishers screwed up formatting. My experience is that locked margins are always far too large.
When I read on my 6 inch Clara, I have to use up all the screen real estate by removing header/footer and margins. With the Aura One, I leave the header/footer on and use larger margins.