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Originally Posted by Ea
What is the best screen size for an eReader that you use... where?
* 5'' and below is very portable
* 6-8'' is large enough for a resonable amount of text on the screen while still not being cumbersome tos it with
* 9-11'' is better for the kind of PDFs we can currently get, and I would prefer a large screen for most non-fiction in general
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Exactly-except I'd reserve the 'extra-large' screens for browsing multiple articles, e.g. news or magazine. I dislike the 'headline only' format of RSS or many of the news websites (where the main page is a list of links). Generally I prefer to have a couple of paragraphs of the 'story' right below the headline, so currently I read those on my PC. I use my Palm for fiction because it's pocket-sized. And I'd like something a little bigger, but still portable, for reading 'around the house' but have chosen not to get anything like that just yet. Mostly lack of synchronization. (I like Amazon's approach with the Kindle, but will get one only when they allow me to sync it over my home network rather than via theirs. Too many potential privacy issues with their current system. Not to mention the DRM-but at least that can usually be circumvented.)