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Originally Posted by Ankh
I am definitely not an expert, but in my recent (and brief) foray into the typesetters part of the Web I was surprised to learn that they consider A4/letter page format to be "large" and worthy of two columns almost as a rule of thumb. That school of thought says that book format is smaller for a reason, that it is uncomfortable to deal with overly long lines of text.
This is a minefield of a subject, the safest thing is to declare "de gustibus non est disputandum" and leave personal preferences aside. But I am definitely curious to see what will come from all this drive to A4/letter sized readers, and how reading software will handle that increased real-estate. I wouldn't be surprised to find that my personal preferences, for example, differ based on the size of the reader. That slightly bigger font "feels right" on letter-sized device, and so on.
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Interesting comment and there is already talk of having a double column capability in the KDX, particularly in landscape more. I can see this coming. Of course the idea of a large screen reader is to handle PDF and it may already be multi-column and newspapers certainly are. The fact that the page is too wide to comfortably read in single column in no way detracts from the need for the larger device. Many text books in the larger sizes are also multi-column and have large pictures also.
Dale