Thread: 5" or 6" screen?
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Old 06-02-2009, 05:27 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
Kris:

You know I might have noticed something about why do not like reading on my Kindle beyond the display. In your post above:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=18

Looking at the two devices, the Kindle looks way too spacious in terms of kerning. The spacing between characters seems awkward to my eye.

Does anyone else see that?
So, I wasn't the only one that noticed it! I personally would find it harder to read than with a normal kerning (it does seem too spacious).

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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
As to the thread topic. I completely agree with you, it is a matter of what a person prefers not what others try to tell them they need. If not why bother making more than one reading device...and call it a book.

I see myself getting a 5" reader as I ONLY want it for fiction novels nothing else. I will also be getting a 2nd device with at least a 10" display that is more multipurpose 3Qi based device. I expect the two devices combined will be had for under $500 before the end of the summer. The key will be the config of the larger 3Qi based device.

About laptops, I need all the screen real-estate I can get, so we use nothing but 17" laptops. The added benefit is a full size keyboard with number pad. So, we all have our reasons. I can stream video in the corner, work in multiple apps at the same time and do it anywhere i happen to be. I can only hope some of the 3Qi tech finds it's way into the general laptop world adding hours of battery life. Not for ebook reading of course, well for me anyway, because a 17" display would be horrid for me...

As for a TV, because of the ridiculuous HDTV/16:9 format change crap, in order to replace my old Sony 43" display rear projection, I needed at least a 52" TV but opted for a 56" Samsung LED DLP style TV which has better color and consumes far less power and will last pretty much forever for a much lower price than LED TV's . The bedroom got a 32" Samsung LCD that is just fine, we have a big place or are mostly blind, I dunno which because I can't see that far. hehehe....How TV's became part of this read, well, it is scary weird.
A larger device sounds good, and I've been looking at the iliad for some time. It's the price and the size that's holding me back. If I had a smaller device, and if the price was about 200€ lower, I'd buy one. Not for normal book reading, but rather for A4 or PDF reading.

And a 56" TV?!?!? We've still our 32" CRT... Which will, at some point, be replaced by a 42" (not sure about LCD or Plama yet), and we've a huge livingroom....

(couldn't agree with you more about the real-estate required on a monitor screen though!)
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