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Originally Posted by j.p.s
The point at which weight becomes too heavy is very much subjective.
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And I was comparing with reading an 8″ Kobo Sage with one hand, not a hardback. Actually I increasingly prefer reading on the Sage to paperbacks or hardbacks. I can't read for hours holding the 10.3″ Kobo Elipsa in one hand.
I do have Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in hard back, also in hardback: Brewer's The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Complete Mrs Beeton, and many others. Some paperbacks like single volume LOTR or particularly G R R Martin's Dream Songs (1185 pps, 223 x 160 mm) are heavier.
Obviously the Scribe or Elipsa better / more comfortable than those, but a 6.8″ to 8″ eink seems the sweet spot for reading novels. A bigger screen (even if less actual dots as in Elipsa vs Sage) is advantageous for many PDFs, text books and comics. So I'd see any 10″ plus size tablet (eink, oled, lcd) as complementary to a 6″ to 8″ 300 dpi eink, not a sole ereader for novels.
I'd certainly prefer Dream Songs on a Scribe than on my paper copy (btw I also have 1st Ice & Fire before TV and it's rubbish compared to Dream Songs, so I never got more.)