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tesseract420 · 05-05-2009, 02:54 PM

I've read that the new Kindle DX is to have a 9.7 screen. That's great, but paper sizes are not measured by the diagonal length of the paper. With just that one measurement, it's not possible to figure out the A x B paper size, where A is width and B is height (such as 8 1/2 x 11).

There already is a full size A4 reader: the Macbook Air. Open a pdf using Skim, rotate the document to the left. Switch to presentation mode, and you get a full screen display. The Air is light enough so that you can read this way without any problems. The screen of the Air is just a little bit smaller than an A4 sheet of paper.

05-05-2009, 02:54 PM	#94
tesseract420 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 68 Join Date: Apr 2007 Device: sony prs-500	9.7= What?? I've read that the new Kindle DX is to have a 9.7 screen. That's great, but paper sizes are not measured by the diagonal length of the paper. With just that one measurement, it's not possible to figure out the A x B paper size, where A is width and B is height (such as 8 1/2 x 11). There already is a full size A4 reader: the Macbook Air. Open a pdf using Skim, rotate the document to the left. Switch to presentation mode, and you get a full screen display. The Air is light enough so that you can read this way without any problems. The screen of the Air is just a little bit smaller than an A4 sheet of paper.