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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
This seemed so off to me I had to check myself. My Sony 900 external dimensions (including cover) 8-1/4” x 4-3/4”. Available reading area on screen accounting for margins 6” x 3-1/2”.
Pulling a paperback book of similar size off my bookshelf: Footprint 7- 5/8” x 5-1/4”. Print area on page accounting for margins 6-1/2” x 4-1/2”.
The Sony has about the same 'printed' area as the paperback not about one half. Not even close to that reduction.
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Fair call. Thanks for taking the trouble to measure and post the figures
In my defence, my figures aren't off because I wasn't talking about your Sony. I quite specifically referred to the screen size of my iRiver Story (the one in the picture). The ratios I quoted were accurate. The screen has an area of just over 16.6 square inches (3.5" by 4.75"). The pages in the reasonably small paperback in the same picture cover 38.75 sq inches ( 5" x 7.75"). Comfortably over twice the real estate. Open the book and you can see two pages at once - over 77 sq ins. Measuring only the print area of asingle page gave a similar ratio of slightly less than 2 to 1 (23 to 12.75)
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I generally find that I am reading several books simultaneously; usually some technical book, a couple of fiction books, and a couple of none fiction books. When I want all are available on my reader with the spot I left off bookmarked for me.
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That's great about e-reading isn't it.
Having a bunch of things on the go in one compact location is excellent.
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I do wish the pricing had been lower, but now I seldom buy an e-book. There is so much that I want to read that can be found for free [as an e-book] here and at other sites that I figure I have saved quite a bit versus having to buy the same p-books.
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True enough. I ended up deleting a lot of the free books that I downloaded in the first flush of enthusiasm, but I've still saved a good amount on the ones that I did keep and read.
Cheers,
Chris