Reading e-books two or three lines at a time on a 3.2-inche screen would turn anyone off of reading. If you're trying to interest people in reading more, it's going to have to be a pleasant experience.
If my eyes were on their way out, such a small screen would be truly brutal; but if smallish print isn't an issue small screens really aren't bad(for texts that reflow well, PDFs, technical documentation, images/diagrams, etc. are a total clusterfuck). Back in the day, I burned through a lot of Project Gutenberg stuff with my Visor Edge [wikimedia.org](mine was silver; but same 160x160 pixel screen) and Weasel Reader. Slim, light, good battery life, backlight was alien-abduction-green but perfectly functional, and zTXT format stored a small library even in the teeny sliver of storage that classic PalmOS devices offered.
Barring the (legitimate and serious; but only if you are one) case of the visually impaired and dealing with documents that reflow poorly, you can do surprisingly well with seriously lousy specs.
Seriously? (Score:5, Insightful)
Reading e-books two or three lines at a time on a 3.2-inche screen would turn anyone off of reading. If you're trying to interest people in reading more, it's going to have to be a pleasant experience.
Re:Seriously? (Score:2)
Barring the (legitimate and serious; but only if you are one) case of the visually impaired and dealing with documents that reflow poorly, you can do surprisingly well with seriously lousy specs.