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Originally Posted by ProDigit
I find the resolution on my PRS-505 already pretty awesome!
It's like finer than a laptop's resolution.
A higher resolution usually means slower page turning, lower battery life, and often an increase in quality that is hardly perceivable.
I find that on a 5" screen, I tend to put it closer to my face, because everything looks so small. On an 8" screen, I'd probably put that further away from my face, because it's bigger,and thus easier to read.
When you put your device further away from you, resolution matters less.
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Why would you compare to a laptop?
The PRS-505's resolution is barely more than half of what it needs to be (300 dpi) for it to match the quality of a printed page (obviously a feat not only depending on resolution, but also on other factors).
People have a tendency (presumably on account of the crazy amount of money they spent on the device) to rationalize away its shortcomings. If 166 dpi text was acceptable in books, or if the difference was not noticeable (whether consciously, or just in the sense of people intuitively noticing that "one of these books looks better than the other one"), they wouldn't be universally printed at twice the resolution or higher.
The universal eBook device of the future needs to have a "crème" coloured white (not full white, as that is unnecessarily harsh on the eyes for leisure reading) for its page background, 300 dpi resolution, and 8" or 9" screen. (Folding in half [at least when not in use] would also be good.)
Such a device could be made to work for just about any kind of material--given publishers' willingness to actually format it specifically for the device--whether it's a novel, a textbook with tables and illustrations galore, or a newspaper or magazine with highly complex layout.
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