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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Maybe some day when there's an A4 sized reader out with a touch screen that you can write on with a stylus just as easily and lag free as you can with a printout and a pin I'll give electronic versions of them another go.
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A4 is actually too large for a nicely typeset book. Too wide, mostly. On such a device fully typeset books would either have to be viewed landscape (two conceptual pages, facing one another, on one "physical page") or would be multicolumn (which is still suboptimal because of not wide enough but overly long columns).
For profile (as opposed to landscape) reading, I think 6 inch by 9 inch is workable for just about any type of book. Not too wide for single column text, but wide enough for two thin columns (like in dictionaries) as well as inset pictures and other typographic complexities.
Also, 6x9 is the sort of medium size for books... so books are either a little bigger or a little smaller (unless they're huge photo coffee-table books) and ought to be adjustable to a slightly different paper/screen size without too much pain.