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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Who is to say that these professional UI designers actually know what the users want? What valid reason is there for not giving the users a setting of no margins along with differing margin settings? You'd then get the margins you like and I'd get rid of margins I don't like.
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It's tempting to assume that there are none. However, withholding customizability may have surprising benefits for client happiness (see
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz). Practically speaking, I have heard from many developers that when users are given too much control over display settings, they manage to screw up the look and feel of the app, which is of course blamed on the developer.
That being said, I don't see a very compelling argument not to include more resizing options (aside from the fact that I don't consider them necessary). However, I do object to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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Bluefire does a good job with the margins on it's least margins setting. When you have an iPhone, a margin of 41 pixels is too big. The iPhone is only 3.5". Quite small.
I do feel sorry for you because you have the corporate view of things and not the user view. You think that someone who is a professional knows what's best for the user and the user has no clue what's good for them. Have you ever thought that the user knows what's best for the user?
I have a feeling that you may be one of these UI guys who doesn't actually have a clue what the user wants. The idea is to please the user so the user uses your product. I don't use a Kindle because I don't like some of the things forced upon us by the UI guys. I don't like the forced margins. I don't like the font. I don't like the line-height bug in the KF8 code. There are things the programmers should fix and should have fixed yesterday.
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See, this is why you cannot be taken seriously. Bluefire, an app which is missing so many features integral to screen reading (one-click highlighting, built-in dictionaries, cloud syncing, Wikipedia and Google integration, progress bar on books in the library, etc.) somehow merits your unequivocal praise because of its
margin size while far more advanced ebook apps are called pathetic and terrible. No sense of objectivity.