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Old 04-21-2009, 03:43 PM   #8
Jack Tingle
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Not so fast...

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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
...However, I also like ereaders. An ereader gives you the ability to carry an entire library in the palm of your hand, and as far as I am concerned that is just magical (literally).
I measured the text in the largest normal book in my office: NFPA, "Fire Protection Handbook", 16th edition. I get a diagonal measurement of the text on a normal page of 11-5/8 inches. I don't know about you, but the palm of my hand's about 4-1/2 inches.

If it doesn't fit, you don't get your lit, to paraphrase. At least not in a handheld form. You should probably stick to books, as someone noted previously.

My Dell X51, on the other hand, has a screen diagonal of 3-1/2 inches, which will fit in the palm of my hand (ignoring the smallish bezel).

All well and good that _you_ want a 12" screen on your custom-built, super-expensive reader. Most consumers, most of the time, need a B&W LCD or eInk screen with enough space to read reasonably sized text with in-line images that can be zoomed if need be.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough, and I'm afraid your idea of perfect would probably cause a lot of people to _not_ buy an ebook reader.

Negatively,
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