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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear Duckey:
You hit it right on the head. It is two different camps and the only question is will the factories realize that. One model will NOT fit all. We need a Basic model and a PRO model.
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I'm not so sure that there are really 2 different camps divided as suggested. For example, I want a 9-inch reader but I'm definitely not in the academic camp. I want the larger screen so I can subscribe to my newspapers and magazines' electronic versions -- not RSS feeds but essentially duplicates of the print version -- and so I can more easily read nonfiction that incoporates a lot of images (I'm so tired of not being able to read, for example, an author's map or of being able to see the detail in a Ming vase photograph).
I do not consider 9 inches too large for fiction reading. Granted, at 9 inches the device would be more cumbersome to transport than my 6-inch Sony, if ease of transportation was my #1 concern, I would look at a 5-inch or smaller device.