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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I think a good 8 inch screen might be a decent enough size for PDF if it allows the margin to be removed. And come a moderator please fix the poll to add in an 8 inch scree?
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Reframing the question as, "if you could only own one reader, what would be the optimal screen size," I, too, would go with 8.
I have a Sony 505, and the entire device is almost exactly the size of an 8 inch screen. Holding it, I can tell that on the one hand, a somewhat portable device could be built around an 8 inch screen, while at the same time, pdf & technical documents could be read in landscape mode, with the possible exception of large scale diagrams which require a full 8x11 page to be read intelligently.
But the market seems to be telling us that we should own, at a minimum, two devices. One has a screen sized up to 6 or 7 inches, and the other has a screen sized around 10 inches. The former is for casual, portable reading, the other for more intense reading, at a table or in a good easy chair.
I hope to have the market over for dinner soon, to explain my purchase of an Apple tablet to my wife.