On 1/15/2016 8:15 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 01/15/2016 04:58 AM, Don Y wrote:
Wow! Are you sure about that size? Hell, that's barely larger than an
INDEX CARD!

That's what is affectionately known as a 6" screen. 4 7/8 high is a more
accurate measurement.

Sheesh! I think I have 10-15 year old PDAs with screens bigger than that!

The Paperwhite is 300 ppi for 1440 x 1080, while the
keyboard is 167 ppi for 600 x 800. I haven't seen a Paperwhite in the flesh so
I don't know how much the higher resolution buys you.

The SONY Digital Paper DPT-S1 is A4 size with 1600 x 1200 resolution. It's also
around $800 and I don't know if it does anything other than pdf's.

I suspect that is probably overkill. IIRC, my tablet PC's are 1024x768 (?)
at 12" (just as large as the "active" portion of most sheets of paper)
and I rarely have to zoom to see additional detail.

As it's a PC, it's not limited to ereader functionality -- nor a specific
set of ebook formats (having a single function device, nowadays, seems
pretty crippling). E.g., I presently have one in it's "dock" connected
to four external USB drives serving their contents to my "NAS-RAID"
over SMB shares. A BT keyboard and BT mouse let me use it as a
computer when not acting as a file service.

Take it out of the dock and it's back to being my ebook reader.

(Unfortunately, I only have *one* dock so other tablet sits in a small
carrying case)