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Originally Posted by bergie View Post
I've been reading e-books quite happily with Stanza for iPhone, even though the iPhone has much smaller screen and lower resolution than my N810. The big point here is formatting the books correctly, not the screen size.
I have even been reading ebooks on a 352x416 Nokia E70. No matter how you format them, smaller screen either makes you squint or taxes your fingers by forcing you to scroll. This is a hard limitation that cannot be avoided by any amount of formatting.

Now, I do have a few ideas about making FBReader more usable on a physically smaller display, both by zooming parts of the text above your finger touching it and by scrolling text when your finger reaches bottom of the screen and/or you tilt the device. These ideas (if FBReader guys choose to implement them of course) will ease the pain of reading books on N900. But having a bigger screen would obviously make things better.