Kevin Wampler wrote:
> What's your impression of how much of a 
> difference the larger display makes?

Hard to say. I've never really used the small one for any length of time.

You can't put either in your pocket very conveniently. The DX isn't big 
enough to make it hard to pack or anything.

The DX screen is just about the same size as a iPad screen (altho B&W 
obviously). It's the same size as a US letter-sized paper (i.e., the USA 
equivalent of A4) folded in half.

The small one's screen is about as as big as a paperback novel. Of course, 
both have edges, keyboards, etc.

Or, to put it another way, the small one including the frame is a touch 
smaller than the big one's screen. So if you go in a B&N and see a nook, you 
can estimate that the reading surface on the big kindle is about as big as 
the entire nook.

I'm getting old enough I was worried about using the small screen and not 
having enough text at once at the point size I can handle without glasses 
for a long time, plus I'm old enough that the price difference wasn't a 
major factor in my decision. But that doesn't actually seem to be a problem. 
I don't need to bump the text size up to read indefinitely without strain. 
(Maybe I just get strained after looking at a computer all day or something.)

It's definitely helpful when looking at full-sized PDFs, as they don't 
really lose much size compared to if the screen was half as big. (You can 
zoom and scroll PDFs, but it's a little annoying to not see an entire page 
at once, and the processor is slow enough that it's several seconds to 
scroll a complex PDF.)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!

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