How is that compared to the default, and why did you pick this? Is the default good, and comparable to the quality of a Kindle or iPhone? You want the default settings as tuned as possible to the general public (not niches or special cases) while giving those with disability an easy option to opt for their optimization.

I realize they might matter to some people but it is called making sacrifices. I, and I believe neither does Nokia, do not believe the market for e-book readers of the N8x0 screen size and resolution is that high.

I don't want niche niches on my device. I want to have killer applications. Applications which are the best job on a device. Not 300 video players and 400 audio players. Not 20 browsers. Too much choice is not good, and as I've visited K-Mart, Fry's and Media Markt I've experienced this myself. For mobile device I want 1 very good browser as default which suits most people needs. Yes, I want you to be able to use Skyfire or MicroB but not as default browser. Likewise, I don't want to read a lot of text on my mobile devices because the screens are too small, no matter how good the font is. For that I prefer a bigger screen (Kindle/netbook or bigger), or good ol' paper. You'd be surprised how small one book is, and that is most I can read in a limited amount of time anyway. Yes, you can have a lot of with you on a mobile device, that has its advantage too. Then ofcourse some people might prefer different, and those people I want to give their right to change that (but there are always limits!). Meanwhile, I want others (Nokia, Apple, etc) to research what the best font is for the job. And when there is room I want to integrate my own applications and use cases on the device. That 400 different audio players phenomenom is something which was Captain Obvious in Linux 10 years ago, and to me it is a sign of an immature platform. We see something similar now because 1) hardware size (physical, memory, storage, cpu cycles) is smaller 2) its interactive device 3) its mobile device 4) it tries to do a lot of things at same time 5) all that, on Linux (not OSX or S60 or ...). So that means you really have to adapt the software and hardware a lot, so you cannot simply take all of Linux with GNU and put simply Debian on the device. Its too bloated, and not specially made for the specifications of the hardware and goals of the device. Now that was mostly software. The hardware limits are different. You can work around them, and one of the ways to work around it in our user case is using an external screen. Because even if you still want a swiss army knife sacrifices have to be made, and will be made. I do understand you might not like some of the choices being made! But we have to live with the fact that this is Nokia's choice.

It has been long clear that many of you folks, including benny1967 and daperl, are not happy with the direction of Nokia's Maemo products. Why not design your own hardware and use Maemo/Mer as software stack and make your own swiss army knife, leaving Nokia making their NokimAE(mo)Fone with capacitive screen, Linux, multi pointer X... I can't wait... while clearly some dislike or hate this direction.

Also keep in mind sometimes its better to not opt for a swiss army knife. If you're truelly an e-book freak, this is your main purpose, and find something like Kindle too big then consider buying a dedicated, small e-book reader. Such as Readius. That has a foldable screen.