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Old 08-11-2010, 04:39 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Mike L View Post
Hmm. Not sure I see the point of that. What's the advantage of saving "real estate"?
6" screens are smaller than a standard paperback page. In order to have about the same amount of words per line of a paperback on a 6" screen you need to reduce or remove the margins.
I like that the text fills the screen almost to the edges because it means less page turning, but I know not all people like that.

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Would you also want to do away with margins in printed books?
No. Printed books are big enough to provide a sufficient number of words on each line even with left and right margins.
Printed books need margins so you can rest you fingers on them without covering the text, e-book readers have bezels for that.

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