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What are the length and the width of a 6 inches screen and 5 a inches screen ?
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![]() I have drawn the two rectangles based on your answer. the 5" surface looks really tiny ![]() |
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Before buying my reader, I loaded up an ebook in Calibre, and adjusted the reading window size to model the 5" and 6" screens. That extra inch doesn't sound like a lot, but it really showed me how much more screen space that inch gives you, and how many more words will fit as a result.
In terms of area, it works out as 12 square inches for the 5", and 16.7 square inches for the 6", making it 39% bigger in area. Having already decided on a Sony, I opted for the PRS-650 over the 350, as a result. |
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Calibre can be found at
http://calibre-ebook.com/ I used the Calibre Quick Start Guide that comes included as a sample book, but any ebook that you have on your machine would probably work just as well. I took screenshots of the results so I could compare them next to each other. I'll try to attach them to this post (fingers crossed it works). |
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I should add this isn't neccesarily how they'd appear on any given ereader, by the way - best looking at the physical device in a shop for that - I did it more as an exercise to get a feel for how the screen size affected the amount of text that would fit for a given fixed font size. Before I bought mine, I also looked at the physical device and had a play with one in the local Sony Centre. |
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In my research of handheld cctv video magnifiers I did examples of their screen sizes, using 4:3 aspect ratio
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0A...pzNDlnaA&hl=en |
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![]() I hope you didn't shrink* the 5" intentionally in order to exaggerate the difference in size between the two screens ![]() Just kidding Look at this Chinese store, their 5" eReader is really bigger in comparison to the Chinese hand that is holding it. http://www.sinadeal.com/item/New-5-0...B-1599-124626/ |
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In updating my page I found a great online tool that will let you create side by side monitor comparisons you can adjust the aspect ratio of each to compare a regular vs widescreen
http://tvcalculator.com/ If I was able to add the screen shot I compared 5 inch vs 6 inch vs 9.7 inch |
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