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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The 5" readers might offer more portability for a woman (perhaps the 6" won't fit in her purse but the 5"will), but for a man what difference does it make? Anything more than 4.2-4.3" with no edges around the screen will not fit into your pants pocket. And if you have a briefcase then both will fit easily.
And for reading I can imagine that the slightly bigger size is more comfortable. So the only issue might be price, though the difference is not much.
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I don't have a purse, neither will I ever have a purse. I have a nice big backpack.
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Originally Posted by Ea
The "lessons" I have learned so far, is to go for slightly more rather than less. I would say that the main feature of the 5" devices in comparison with the 6" is portability. If you don't need that extra portability, go for a 6" device. The touch screen and the dictionary lookup of the sony 600 seems to be the most important features. If they are important to you, go for the 600.
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And that's why I can't decide. I want a portable reader, to replace my PDA as main reader. I'll be using the 7" JE100 in bed (backlight!) but it's not usable outside. And I mark mistakes on my book (to be updated in the source file later) while reading (which is why I want that touchscreen).
What I'm really looking for (but doubt I'll ever find) is a model like the Sony 600, with touchscreen and a 5" screen. I'll probably end up buying two readers
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1" doesn't make much difference in portabilty. Neither size is going to fit in your pocket, and that diagonal inch doesn't make much difference for something that's going in a purse, bookbag, briefcase etc. when carried around anyway.
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If I see this picture:
I think the 1" smaller does give a lot of size difference in model size.