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Originally Posted by ctitanic
It was not mean to be pocketable and to be honest nobody cares about that.
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You know better than that.
With portable devices there is always a tradeoff between portability and performance. You know that different people will have different tolerances for size, weight and "pocketability." Most people will try to find the highest performing device (subject to cost considerations) that is within their size tolerance.
For some people anything larger than a tiny smartphone is too big. For others, a 4" VGA PDA is as big as they can go. Others can tolerate an even larger device like a kindle or UMPC.
Even if the Kindle is the highest quality ebookreader device in history, if a person won't have it when they want to read because it is too big for that person to carry around, then it is useless for that person.
If page size, clarity and resolution were all that mattered we would all be reading ebooks on large high-resolution screens attached to desktops and no one would buy a kindle. I don't see a whole lot of people reading ebooks that way though.