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Originally Posted by HarryT
I honestly don't see the point, myself - at least not if we're talking about two screens which just display two pages of the book. You're only going to read one page at a time, and is that worth halving the battery life for?
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Most people only read 1-10 words at a time when reading novels in a linear fashion. All those extra square centimeters of screen space are wasted for most readers.
I've been doing a lot of testing with Chinese typesetting and the general opinion of most people I've been interviewing is that if the book is to be presented with vertical formatting, a second page is very useful. Merely flipping the reader to landscape mode does not allow small enough text to display on e-ink, and many users find it slightly disturbing to read that way.
Of course, my post was just a response to the statement that the screen aspect ratio was not ideal for books. Low-quality monochrome screens with noticeable glare (e.g. e-ink) are pretty far from ideal for books in the first place. Most ebook formats are pretty far from ideal for books too, but most folks around these forums seem pretty content with low quality.