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Old 01-17-2010, 02:42 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
I pulled out a few books and measured them.
Paperbacks have a text area ranging from 6" to 7" diagonal. Trade paperbacks and hardbacks have a text area around 8".

So a 6" screen is the same size as a small paperback. Similarly, my Sony 505 is around the size of a paperback, though much slimmer.

What's the problem?
As I mentioned in my post back here, the screen isn't too much smaller than the text area of a paperback.

Unfortunately, it's a little on the small and squat side if you want to make a book with functional margins. Fortunately for epub readers, typesetting is just a horrific bourgeois exploit, so they don't need to worry about it.

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