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Originally Posted by HarryT
Your idea of "too wide margins" does not agree with what's commonly used, Jon. It's fine to have personal preferences, but don't expect the rest of the world to abide by them.
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While I agree that Jon's standards are too specific & strict for my tastes (or the general public), I have gotten epubs with half-inch margins built in, which is a ridiculous margin on an e-ink reader. I've gotten plenty of others that had somewhat-wide margins in em units (3em or so), so that increasing the font size increasing the margins and reading on the largest setting gave me a 1" column in the center of the page for text.
I can see a point for a tiny margin on e-ink readers, so that the bevel on the edge of the page doesn't overshadow the text when one reads at an angle, but anything more than a few pixels or 1em is excessive. Margins are left over from paper where you need to leave enough space for the fingers that are holding the book open; since fingers aren't generally on the page while reading, they're unnecessary in ereaders.