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Originally Posted by holymadness
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.
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So we can't have more customization because users are clueless? That really makes no sense and it a rather silly thing to say.
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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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But if the setting can be set in such a way that is pleasing to you and pleasing to me, then there is no reason not to have such customization.
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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 <i>margin size</i> while far more advanced ebook apps are called pathetic and terrible. No sense of objectivity.
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We were discussing margins, not other features. If I want to read on an iPhone, Bluefire would be the app I would use because the iPhone scree is small and the margins used in Kindle are too large. While the margins may be tolerable on an iPad, they are not on an iPhone.
No reading app on a tablet actually needs Wikipedia and Google support as we have a web browser for that. And that will make the app less cluttered. Bluefire does support highlighting. I admit it could use the addition of dictionaries. But as for a progress bar in the library view, I don't actually want such. Bluefire is supposed to be being updated, but it is behind schedule.
Be to get on topic, Bluefire is an example of margins done right unlike both Kindle and iBooks.