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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I disagree. Readers & most reading apps use the bottom margin for something else such as showing the page number. The reason for the margins s to keep the text away from the edges. The bottom margin is already taken care of. By adding a bottom margin, you are just wasting screen space. You could have that one more line without.
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That would be very device- and settings-dependent. In my device, with my settings, there's
nothing at the bottom, the whole screen is available for the text. Besides, if I activate the footer, a line/rule is drawn and, without a margin, the text could clash with the line (or not, that depends on how this is actually implemented); other devices display the "status bar" with black background, which would be pretty much the same. In any case, your same argument could be use for the top margin, as I could also enable a header in my device (showing the book title and author).
This shows why it is a good idea to keep style simple and compact. Simple styles are easy to understand and modify, if a user thinks the bottom margin is too large.