More pondering about tablets
So I've found my seller, nice and reliable, and now I'm just dithering over two similar models of Eken tablet. The only difference is size. One is 7" (diagonal screen measurement as usual), the M009S. It measures 200 x 127 x 17 outside, 153 x 91 screen, and has a resolution of 800 x 480. The other is 8", the M003S, and it measures 207 x 158 x 12mm outside, 158 x 124 screen, resolution 800 x 600. It would probably cost me about £15 more, taking into consideration that keyboard-cases are a bit rarer for this one, but in the grand scheme of things that's not much. The 8" is also heavier, 448g instead of 334g, which is probably too little to notice. What I'm primarily interested in is how comfortable it will be as an ereader, whether the larger one will be too big to hold comfortably (bear in mind that I have small hands and muscular problems). The larger one will certainly hold more text on its screen, probably to the point that it's more comfortable for ebooks, and certainly better for internet browsing. The smaller one would be a bit more portable, I've a feeling the larger one will be just slightly too big for my handbag, but then if anyone's going to take it outside the flat, it'd probably be D, and not often at that.
Therefore I've fiddled with images and e-texts to do a proper comparison.
Apologies for not copying exactly the same bit of text every time, but halfway through I realised that there were words in the next paragraph which I probably don't want to save in my Flickr file like that. Apart from a very small discrepancy in one margin in one image, I've been careful to keep the top and side margins and text size consistent throughout. Flickr has probably resized them all be overall image size, but I think if you click on the photos and go to the originals, they'll be better. The word counts for those selections average about 197 for the 7" screen and 265 for the 8" screen. The original, in standard sized print of course, holds 483 words on that page, and when I am reading it on my laptop in a fairly large font (I hold books quite close but the laptop's a good distance away from my eyes, plus screen glare etc. make a difference), I can see 237 words on the screen.
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Therefore I've fiddled with images and e-texts to do a proper comparison.
Apologies for not copying exactly the same bit of text every time, but halfway through I realised that there were words in the next paragraph which I probably don't want to save in my Flickr file like that. Apart from a very small discrepancy in one margin in one image, I've been careful to keep the top and side margins and text size consistent throughout. Flickr has probably resized them all be overall image size, but I think if you click on the photos and go to the originals, they'll be better. The word counts for those selections average about 197 for the 7" screen and 265 for the 8" screen. The original, in standard sized print of course, holds 483 words on that page, and when I am reading it on my laptop in a fairly large font (I hold books quite close but the laptop's a good distance away from my eyes, plus screen glare etc. make a difference), I can see 237 words on the screen.
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Please do comment as well as voting in the poll!