9.7" Sony ?

[Lord KiRon]

Based on this:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46375

My hopes looks to be true !!! YEA !!!

[Alphapheemail]

i was about to tell you the good news... and color too??!! I think i'll hold off till 2010ish and wait for my babycakes (prs700) to die of natural causes.

[Lord KiRon]

Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

i was about to tell you the good news... and color too??!! I think i'll hold off till 2010ish and wait for my babycakes (prs700) to die of natural causes.

As I said - two different uses - 6" for "outside" and big needed for home reading and technical books.

[el.astrologo]

Originally Posted by Lord KiRon

As I said - two different uses - 6" for "outside" and big needed for home reading and technical books.

That's true... however I don't think it's quite like that. Think of it like this, the approach of "one for home and one for the road" is more akin to the mind set of a gaming console for instance: you have your Xbox 360 and your PSP. However when it comes to reading I think it's a very different story.

What I'm saying is that the reading experience is different from a consumer's point of view. Most of us don't want to have the BEST EREADER EVER, we just want the one that's best for our purposes. I wouldn't see many of us buying a large screen PRS if we already have one, not unless the improvement is such that renders our trusted reader unbearable.

I would really love this large screen dream if its materials were of sturdier stuff. I mean, I would like to know that I can place the reader in my backpack without any fear of its screen getting scratched or broken, a fear that I might say would increase with screen size. Color isn't such a big deal if we can do 16 shades of gray but PDF support that's REAL, that woud be awesome. No more reformatting and cropping and so on...

[Lord KiRon]

Not sure about backpack but I need big screen to read PDFs , the technical books mainly , and of course I prefer to read from big screen.
So for me both are good enough reasons to get big screen.

[Alphapheemail]

@ Lordikron
it is undebatable that every user has different needs. Being a scholar I completely understand the lure of the big screen reader, however this device really replaces the paper articles only if your the type of reader that has a "neat" approach to their reading habits. I am the type that if I have a paper to do I need all the sources i am using in front of me in the paper format with all my notes and higlights. This is why i cannot envision using it as an academic tool; so the only other use really is leisure reading which is why I will wait for my PRS to expire