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Old 03-17-2008, 06:57 PM   #28
Madam Broshkina
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Originally Posted by radleyp View Post
Balok, where on earth did you get that explanation for the existence of margins? Margins are there for visual purposes and also to allow for annotations. If you think about it for even a moment, you quickly realize that there are ways to hold a book which have absolutely nothing to do with the existence of margins. Frankly, I don't understand this whole discussion: the amount of text in question is small. Personally I find text without margins harder to read.
Actually Balok's post has some merit. I thought about it and I quickly realized that for me that there are not that many ways to hold a book comfortably without my fingers or thumbs being somewhere on the page. If there were no margins the text would be covered by my aforementioned fingers or thumbs. There is no real need for margins in a Electronic Reader since they are already built in by the case. I find the margins in books from the Sony eBook store to be excessive. The less words on the page means more page turns and consequently more battery usage.
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