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Old 09-07-2007, 10:36 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by mandochild View Post
Sounds like reading on iPod is somewhat masochistic! Wonder what the new large screen iPods will be like?! Can they compete with eink???? (okay, they won't be as great to read, but does the added bonus of music and portability cancel out the size and screen problem?
IIRC the new screens are 3.5inch diagonal with a resolution of 480x320 (ish). So very roughly the same as a pda (same size though some pdas have a higher resolution). Smaller and with lower resolution than eink but perfectly usable and of course - colour. Reading A4 pdfs is possible but not something you'd want to do for an extended session but eBooks in html or a custom pdf from FeedBooks would be more than fine (espoecially as I think they use apple's Quartz rendering technology). There were some screengrabs from the iPhone somewhere on the site (or try the Books.app pages).
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