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Originally Posted by PhishStyx
I agree with nearly everything you said except that I don't need or even want PDF's that reflow for 6" screens. I'm very happy with reading PDF's at full size.
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I'm not; I want a portable reader that fits in my purse, that I can read comfortably with one hand on a crowded train, and anything that shows full-size letter/A4 PDFs won't do that.
And this is why I don't expect we'll settle on a single size of reader, and why PDF won't win the format wars--for the same reason that computer screens never settled on a single size and websites never settled on a single layout: different people have different needs & wants from their tech.
21" screens for business use; 15" screens for portable laptops; 3" screens for phones, all trying to access the same websites.
We're going to have the same issues with ebooks: letter-size screens for full-page PDFs for business or school, 5" or 6" screens for novel readers, 3" screens for occasional readers who need the phone-and-apps options more than the ebook options. And that's a minimum range; there'll be other options as well. 10" netbook screens, optimized for web & light word processing, and incidental ebook support.