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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's not pedantic at all. There's a significant difference between a "glaring fault" and a personal preference. Eg, many Onyx T68's (but not mine, thankfully) spontaneously reboot at low battery levels: that's a fault. Not liking the margin settings on the Kindle is simply a personal preference.
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Just because a lot of people overlook the wide margins and large line-height, doesn't mean that it's not a glaring fault which it is. When Amazon released the iOS Kindle app, the glaring fault with the margins was even more noticeable because of the iPhone's narrow screen. That meant less text and if you wanted larger text, even less text on screen and the margins become even more of a problem.
Mobi doesn't have the line-height issue that KF8 has. So why have it? Why not have a more reasonable line-height? You can get a lot more text on screen with comfortable settings that aren't silly and will work better for more people then what we have now.
The settings I use are not typical. I'm fine with that. But I could change the margins and the line-height slightly and I think you'd find a lot of people would not mind at all.
It comes down to the fact that the Kindle is very inflexible when it cones to how the eBook looks. The margin settings beyond the smallest are worthless and the line-height setting beyond the smallest are also worthless. make those larger settings smaller and they might get used.
Margins, make the current smallest as the largest, the smallest make that at 1/4th the current smallest and the next up 1/2 the current smallest. Same with line-height and things would be so much more customizable for many more people.