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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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And why exactly do we need to squeeze as much text on a page as possible? With current readers battery life or speed of a page turn should not be such an issue that it really matters.
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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.
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A lot of people do not mind the way it is.
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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.
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Worthless? Wow, did we scoop this low already? Take the widest margin setting for example. To you it is just a waste of so much screen estate, to someone else it can be the best setting since sliced bread. Who needs margins that wide? Or rather who needs text that narrow? A perfect setting if you don't want to move your eyes left and right. Can I personally read like that? No, and I am not interested in learning it either.
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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.
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It will only work if you add to the settings by adding a forth option - and you have the chance of confusing customers. Advanced settings? A nightmare for support. Someone will by accident get into the advanced settings, make their Kindle unusable to them, and then has to call Amazon to get it fixed. Take away a setting that has been on the Kindle since the first iteration, and you will have angry customers.