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Originally Posted by kenjennings
Suppose that may be due to the relatively higher cost to make paper back then? Or the labor involved in typesetting a page? I'd figure if printing requires hand setting type before manually pressing, then I'd shoot for the biggest piece of paper possible with the most text possible, to reduce the number of pages/typesetting exercises to a minimum. Any History experts here?
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Hmm, never thought about that. Sounds logical, and there were a lot of competing publications - some being done locally by amateurs. Some of the periodicals are in bigger type, smaller paper. Some were in a 'newspaper' type of format, accounting for the larger paper size. Some are highly illustrated. Here's one with tiny print from Google books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2uM...page&q&f=false I'm not sure of the original size of the publication.
Anyway, having a larger eDGe would be really nice, especially considering the difficulties in smoothly zooming and moving around the page.