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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
... Large screens defeat the whole reason a lot of people want ebooks in the first place, because they're portable. They're not all going to be large, unless you come up with a foldable screen, and even there there are major useability issues. And a 2-hour battery life tablet is going to do away with the PRS's and Kindle's?
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Hm, most people tend to buy regular size books, rather than the various mini-sized novelty editions.
A regular size trade paperback is 7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm), which is the equivalent of a diagonal screen size of 11.5 inches (29.2 cm). Which is larger, than the 9.7 inches screen of the Kindle DX.
A tablet with a 10 inch screen would be likely a tad smaller than a trade paperback, and a 12 inch screen one a tad larger than a trade paperback. It is also likely, that either tablet will be thinner than an average trade paperback. So, portability will be about the same, as with a trade paperback.
As to battery life, Jobs has apparently killed the previous attempts at bringing a tablet to market, at least partially because of this issue. But the new Apple MacBooks do 7 hours on video, so I'd guess that some of this tech will find its way into the rumored tablet. If battery life is within reach of iRex's products, I think an Apple tablet will be usable for most.