05-15-2011, 07:49 AM | #1 |
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Min screen size for A4 pages
So I have these books in PDF format, anywhere up to A4 size (that's just a little bit taller and thinner than US letter I think).
I want to buy an eReader to read them. But there won't be reflow. The 6" Kindle looks too small, though I haven't tried it. What is the smallest screen size acceptable for reading A4? |
05-15-2011, 08:10 AM | #2 |
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It depends on your sight and the font size of the PDF.
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05-15-2011, 09:15 AM | #3 |
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20/20 and 12pt
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05-15-2011, 09:37 AM | #4 |
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And what's the minimum font size you'd be comfortable with?
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05-15-2011, 09:41 AM | #5 |
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Cropped PDF's read in the landscape orientation on the baby Kindle are ok.
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05-15-2011, 10:34 AM | #6 |
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My daughter's comfortable with reading letter-sized pages with 12-pt font on a 6" Kindle screen. I can if I use the landscape view; I get more annoyed with the page breaks than the font size.
That's small enough that you really should find someone with a device to check it out; the line between "a little small, but I can put up with it" and "too small to read for more than a minute or two" is very much a matter of personal preference. |
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ok, well it sounds dangerous enough to avoid the 6". Come to think of it they should display 10pt and even 8pt for notes and legends. I will read Indian scripts which are difficult even in books and can't see myself jimmying PDFs before.
9" are just so expensive thanks for replies |
05-15-2011, 12:56 PM | #8 |
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An A4 is 21cm wide. A 6" screen is around 12cm high, so if you turn the reader in portrait orientation, you're fittin 21cm in 12cm, which is a 12/21 = 57% scale. That turns a 12pt font into ~6.85pt
If the A4 PDF has 1in margins, the text is ~16cm and the scale is 75%, with which 12pt becomes 9pt |
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Hope they bring out a reader with 210x270mm. Whole idea of eReaders was to replace paper I thought. You lose something in reflow. I still prefer reading PDFs on my PC than epubs.
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05-24-2011, 08:00 AM | #10 |
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Hello
With the readers on sale today it’s: 1 - Kindle Dxg (with Duokan preferably); or 2 - Pocketbook 902/903. Best regards, |
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