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Originally Posted by cellaris
Sure, but you have to open books to read them, and the space they take up when open is the same as a 10" e-reader in landscape mode (where you effectively have the equivalent of two 7" e-readers side by side).
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The space taken is irrelevant.
Also humans can only read one page or column at a time. The physical nature of saving paper by 50% is why printed books use a two pages per leaf. There is no point in duplicating that on an electronic reader, though prototypes have been made. Obviously some non-reflowable content is printed on paper to use two leaves side by side. Almost only on illustrated books. Exceedingly rare with novels or normal textbooks.
The only real advantages of 10″ and larger
* Much bigger font for same amount of text
OR
* Able to read content that's not reflowable.
I had an Elipsa, and weirdly (or perhaps inevitably) the reMarkable has come back. I still have a working 9.7″ DXG, that amazingly still connects to Amazon (by EDGE version of 2G rather than 3G now).
So my experience, and everyone I know here*, is that 6″ to 8″ is fine for reflowable novels, with 8″ best in the house, and the 10″ is inferior for reflowable novels.
Also if it's not reflowable, even 10.3″ is often too small. I use 14.25″ for comics & PDFs and the 8″ Sage for novels.
Obviously having both sizes is handy. Though the 10.3″ eink isn't big enough to proof two page up PDFs for POD in landscape. I thought it would be, but it's not. The 14.25″ tablet only just manages that, but is OK.
(I think 17 people in the "family" now have eink ereaders, about age 10 to 75, the 90+ aged user reading under the blankets with front light has passed on)
But many other people I know only read on phones. In fact most bought ebooks are read on apps on phones, i.e. the majority of readers of ebooks.