6-7" is the sweet-spot for fiction in terms of portability. Anything larger won't fit in a coat pocket and will need a bag, anything smaller doesn't show enough text on a page, though I suppose 5" is OK.
I think people really need to come to grips with the fact that there's a distinct difference between the single-column massively text-oriented paradigm used in fiction and the multi-column paradigm of technical works in which figures, equations and illustrations play a major role. Even discounting the issue of portability, I would
not want to read a novel on an 11" screen, but it would certainly be a lot better for papers.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I read on a Clié for two years before getting my Sony;
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I got my Palm T3 in 2003 and read books on it (intermittently) for years. To be honest with you, it sucked, even after I'd tweaked the reader with fonts that were halfway decent.