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Old 02-12-2007, 11:58 AM   #133
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm certainly not doubting that it is for you, Mike, but for what percentage of the Reader's potential audience do you think that is true for?

Let's face it - reading an A4 or US Letter sized page on a 90x120mm screen is never going to be an experience that "works" - it just can't. If you want to read documents formatted for A4, you ideally want an A4-sized screen, and that immediately removes the portability which is one of the Reader's key strengths.

There may well be a market for A4-sized devices for people such as yourself, but I honestly can't see how you could ever do it well on a screen as small as the Reader. To my mind, the Reader is the "paperback book killer", not the "Magazine/Textbook/Newspaper killer".
Maybe the reader can learn to adjust (softwarewise) any pdf we upload to it?
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