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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
and there are gutters between each column of text
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this is what I had in mind.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
I create a margin of 2% ; ... some breathing room from the edge of the screen.
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2% is 1.8mm on the Reader and that would be a *very* reasonable value for margin. In fact, when you create an rtf file with 0.01 size margin the reader starts text some 2 mm from the screen edge.
I have been reading from [very] small screens for years and I have acquired a taste for using as much screen real estate as possible.
Sony, on the other hand sells books that have something like +10mm margin and that is a waste of space. The first post in this thread shows Kindle with a text formated with an 8 mm left margin. I have just measured it. This is what I am grumbling about.
To make things worse the books from Sony Connect store have fully justified paragraphs. Full justification works great on an average printed page where there are quite a few words (or, more importantly, quite a few spaces) on the line. When you do a full justification combined with 6" screen, relatively large font and quite wide margins the width of space between words varies too much for me to be comfortable with.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
... but it's my job to know a minimum about it because i am a graphist and i get paid to know how to lay out text.
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I have done quite a lot of work in DTP, working in Aldus PageMaker, Quark and InDesign so I know what you are talking about. I have even been creating brochures and advertisement company materials for offset printing.
And do not let me started on the serif versus sans-serif and their readability on a very low resolution medium. And 160dpi of an e-ink screen is low. Very low. Isn't it? Please notice that most of the content you read on web pages - including this site - is in sans-serif font.