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Dr. Drib · 11-14-2025, 08:56 AM

Clarification: I'm not actually looking to buy one (if there is/was one), but rather to find out if such a tablet with those dimensions was ever built.

The problem (for me), is that most tablets are what I would describe as being long and skinny.

Such a discussion on tablet manufacturing trends might be useful and enlightening. Well, at least to me.

For example, have you not noticed the proliferation of smaller eink devices that mimic the form factor of cell phones? And yet, a few years ago, here in Peru, I saw some kind of tablet - an older device even then - from some unknown (to me) company that resembled in form factor a Kobo Mini or Sony Reader Pocket Edition 350. I turned on this strange device and verified that it was NOT an eink screen, but an LCD.

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Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,661 Karma: 60840903 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	Clarification: I'm not actually looking to buy one (if there is/was one), but rather to find out if such a tablet with those dimensions was ever built. The problem (for me), is that most tablets are what I would describe as being long and skinny. Such a discussion on tablet manufacturing trends might be useful and enlightening. Well, at least to me. For example, have you not noticed the proliferation of smaller eink devices that mimic the form factor of cell phones? And yet, a few years ago, here in Peru, I saw some kind of tablet - an older device even then - from some unknown (to me) company that resembled in form factor a Kobo Mini or Sony Reader Pocket Edition 350. I turned on this strange device and verified that it was NOT an eink screen, but an LCD. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 11-14-2025 at 09:06 AM.