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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
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,
Jack Tingle
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I was responding to the comment about just wanting *books* and not an ereader. The use of the word literally in my comment was intended to apply to 'magical' not to the size of 'the palm of my hand'.
But since you brought it up, the size of the ereader I would like for displaying PDFs would probably be around the size of Plastic Logic device, around 10.3" I believe. This would mean that really large pages would need to be scaled down somewhat, but I could live with that if the pages still look good. I have heard that an 8.5x11 page still looks good on Plastic Logic device and also on an iRex device. The only reason I don't get an iRex device is that they are expensive and not tied into any of the major book content providers (i.e. Amazon and Sony).