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I am really astonished at this discussion about margins. Every text I see today has margins: legal briefs and student papers have them, and these do not have to be held open, since the pages lie flat (on a desk, if you wish). The margins are there for readability. If you go back centuries, you will find texts where there was no separation of words: spaces were put in to make the text readable. Spaces are essential for the eye to make out text. Find a text with no margins, and try to read it: you will skip lines, even have trouble with individual words. Margins are an essential part of text. Saying that the ereader case is a margin is like saying that the frame of a monitor is a margin. The Kindle allows for highlighting by drawing lines around the highlighted passage, and for that you need a margin. Margins mean fewer words on the page, true, which means more page turns, but how on earth does this produce concerns about battery use on a Sony which allows for many thousands on a single charge?
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