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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
That's what I said. To fit an A4 page into a 12" screen, you (or, very preferably, your ebook reader) have to remove the margins through cropping. However, I don't see any reason why this can be a problem.
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You are right you did mention the cropping. My reply was a little shorter than I was thinking. The cropping only works when the pdf is designed for print as well. I don't believe that it is required for pdf's to be printable. Even if a print-pdf is used as the source, for say an electronic school book, then the version for e-screens could be different from the pbook. Occasionally the margins could be used for annotations, or additional references or examples, or for you to make notes (if the e-reader allows you to "scribble" in your book). Margins also have the purpose to make it easier to read. Without margins you can get lost on the page - set your printer to print without margins (if it allows for that) and print a full page with text and you see how hard that is to read compared to having margins.
I also hope that a large screen e-reader will be A4 sized and not US-paper sized. Two A5 portrait pages next to each other is exactly a landscape A4 size, with the same height to width ratio. Now, don't try that with the US paper. I still don't like the paper here (in the US) for exactly that reason.