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Old 01-31-2007, 10:51 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd guess it's because the Reader is currently (officially, at least) a US-only product and Americans are famously "non metric". It's a pity that they use these odd "inch" screen sizes when "90x120mm" is an almost exact "metric" size for the screen.

No disrespect intended to our many American friends here, many of whom I know are perfectly happy to use metric measurements.
Hey HarryT, It was our UK ancestors that foisted the "inch" on us. And it's been good enough for us ever since but at least we engineers can convert to metric.
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