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Originally Posted by haydnfan
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.
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You waste an awful lot of pixels for those margins. If the device itself was white instead of black you'd have your margins outside of the display zone without wasting anything... I don't get why black prevails as a color for ereaders, especially for the flush screen ones; I only want the text itself to be black, nothing else.
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Originally Posted by haydnfan
So why not better emulate the look and feel of the paper book?
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A paper book is not a standard to strive for... it may be the format you're used to the most, but lots of things were done this way because it was paper, not because it was the best way to do it... a good ereader should go above and beyond what a paper book used to be, not emulate paper book properties.