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Originally Posted by nmackay
The frustration of trying to turn Letter/A4 PDFs into forms legible on the Reader is an example.
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But why would you even attempt to use a device with a 6" screen to read documents designed to be displayed on an A4 screen? It's an exercise in futility. If reading A4 documents is a priority for you, you need a device with an A4 screen, such as a Tablet PC. As discussed
ad nausiam in this forum, it is not the Reader's "fault" that PDF documents cannot sensibly be formatted for a different screen size.
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The Reader then can’t do the job that I think is best suited for: READING ALL AND ANY ELECTRONIC TEXT THAT YOU OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE TO READ ON COMPUTER SCREEN.
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You may believe that to be the Reader's purpose, but personally I disagree. The Reader is intended to replace a paperback book, not a computer screen.
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Of course the problems in trying to convert page sizes of electronic media to suit the Reader would be much less if the Reader was closer to the large page sizes we handle in paper.
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But then it would be a different device, aimed at a different market. I completely agree with you that there is indeed a market for A4 devices, but it's not the market that the Reader is aimed at. The Reader is designed primarily for reading fiction, and it's very, very good at that.