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In my rarely humble opinion reading is a very personal sort of thing. We all read for our own reasons and we all have our own ways of reading and I think that's as it should be.
Lately I've been doing some experimenting, not because I'm trying to solve any problems but just because I find it interesting. I tried the wide margins and liked the results and posted about it, not so much as to get others to do it but because I thought it was interesting.
I also read for fun. I'm not in a hurry. I'm a fairly slow reader and I always have been and that's okay with me. However, this margin thing speeded me up and that's okay too. It's not very important for it's own sake but it's a positive thing. More important is that by getting through books faster I find myself both enjoying them more and losing track of earlier characters and events less. I'm not speed reading. I'm still reading at what seems my natural speed. It's just that that's increased.
I have no idea how much faster I'm reading. It seems like maybe 50% faster but that's only a pretty wild guess.
Anyway it's working for me. I plan to do it a while longer and then go back to narrow margins and compare. My guess is I'll end up leaving the margins wide but I won't decide that yet.
I think some of the discussion in here about whether this is a good thing or not is more appropriate for speed reading and that's a very different topic. This isn't that at all.
Barry
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