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Originally Posted by JohnnyRocks
By the way, if words per line were as important as you claim (because you read a book from left to right) then wouldn't even printed books be in landscape? Of course they are not, and, of course, that is because words per line isn't the only consideration. Otherwise, someone would invent a 10 foot wide by 1 inch tall ereader that displayed a thousand words per line but only one line per page. Do you see how absurd the logic is?
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Words per line are importing for scansion in poetry. When reading things written in a dactylic hexameter (Homer, Virgil, etc.), you really don't want your line cut off. I tend to read that sort of thing in landscape mode.