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Originally Posted by tompe
Are you bothered by that in paper books also?
I think you need margins for a good experience and I understand Amazon's decision not to let people change it to much. Having the text to near the side will for most people look very strange and not be optimal for reading and is not good advertising for a Kindle.
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Are you saying you can't trust readers to set their own margins? Why couldn't Amazon default to the margins they have now but make the two other margin settings,
which are currently huge and huger (and, I'm guessing NEVER EVER used), to something reasonable? Amazon could let you choose a narrower margin or a slightly larger margin? The NST, for example, gives you three preset settings, and they're actually settings that someone might want to choose -- I sometimes choose the medium margin setting on the Nook. Does anyone, anywhere actually use the two
EVEN wider margins on the Kindle? Ever? I can't imagine it.
And are you suggesting that, since you can't change the margins on paperback books, you shouldn't be able to change the margins on eReaders? Would you also say you shouldn't be able to change the font, the size of font, the width of the spaces between the lines? With a paper book you also can't touch a word on the page and have the definition pop up or touch a footnote and go directly to the reference -- should those features also be removed from a Kindle to give it a more "authentic reading experience?"
I'm not thrilled with the Kobo readers, but I'm half tempted to get Kobo Touch specifically because I could fine tune my margins and line widths exactly to my preferences. Or I could just accept the publisher's defaults, if I felt the need to be constrained.
As for me, I like my Kindle Basic (Non-Touch, Black version) much better now that I found the non-root margin hack that allows me to make the margins narrower. Personally I don't run my words to the edge -- I keep them somewhere between the edge and the Kindle's default margin setting. But those who do run them to the edge are apparently happy with their choice or they wouldn't do it. Why shouldn't they have that choice?