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Originally Posted by simple dave
I've just ordered a reader. To pass the time till it get all the way to my corner of the earth, I went browsing the reader pictures here on mobileread and in other places. I'm a fast reader and it seemed to me that in all the pictures I've seen there's only a few lines per page. At my reading speed I'd probably wind up turning the pages all the time. So I'd like to ask you who have used it for a while - how does it compare to reading a paperback?
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I find that at 14pt Times Roman, RTF files end up with about as much text on a page as a normal paperback. For me, 14pt is about right for reading in extremely good light on the small size. I often bump it up to medium, which results in 2/3 the text on a page (so half again as many pages). Turning the page, as mentioned above, is certainly no slower than a paperback for RTF or LRF files -- I've read a couple .pdfs that took 2-3 seconds, and you just end up timing the button press; slightly annoying, but not insurmountably so.
BTW, Natch; I think the avatar is from Tintin.
Cheers,
ScS