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Originally Posted by grucha44
Looking at shown picture makes me wonder - why make such a "big" reader and then set header, footer and margins so big that I'm afraid I have more actual book text on usual 6" reader
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If Kobo used a picture with a giant wall of text, some people would feel intimidated and not buy the device. It's not aesthetically pleasing for marketing purposes.
But I will offer an argument for the value of margins, headers and footers. Paperbacks and hardcovers have large margins, headers and footers. That white space is an important part of the display of a book. That new reader meets or exceeds the size of an mmpb in area which allows you to use that negative space without sacrificing valuable screen real estate. On the standard six inch reader there is so little space for reading that margins, headers and footers feel like a terrible waste of space. And we're so used to those cramped conditions that we forgot the aesthetic appeal of that negative space border. But we don't have that problem on an eight inch reader. So why not better emulate the look and feel of the paper book? I mean isn't that the point of the e-ink reader?