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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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Books are generally larger than 6 inch diagonal. Also you need some place to place your thumb. And you can actually write on the margins of a real book. On an e-reader you already have some place to put your thumb, the bezel.
Of course it's good to have a bit of space, .2em or so, between the bezel and the text. But that is only because with the current tech we have there is a clear delineation between the display and the bezel. Imagine if you can make the bezel indistinguishable by sight and touch from the display. Then your bezel becomes the margin and there is no need for any virtual margin at all. Or if you can make the entire front face the display and have no bezel at all. In that case, it's really like a book and it's entirely up to the publisher or user how big a margin to have. For some content, like comics or photos, you'll want an edge to edge display.i