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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why is it that publishers feel it is OK to start each XML file at 15% from the top of the screen? That's just a waste of screen space and looks awful.
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Probably because I prefer it that way (and am surely not alone). I find starting a new chapter with no large top margin (even upwards of 50%) to look as "awful" as you think a top margin of 15% looks. It screams "amateurish" to me.
If anything, I find that vertical spacing in ebooks needs to be
exaggerated (compared to pbooks) to be effective--in almost every case. I don't really care about "wasting" screen space. I've never run out of screen in all the time I've been reading ebooks.
My question is: why has ereading turned so many readers into armchair typography (and book formatting) experts?
