I think narrow bezels are fine if the bezel is raised. If it's flush you have to be too careful to avoid the screen and then wider bezels are better.
The vertical bezels on my Paperwhite are pretty narrow but they're just fine because the bezel is raised. On my Voyage, with the same size bezels and a flush screen they're a bit narrow and I have to be careful holding it.
However, the new Nook's bezels look overly wide to me. I'm not sure that would matter to me much while reading, which is what's important, but when I look at the pictures it just seems clumsy. I'd like to see one before buying it but I don't know if I'll get that chance. I haven't decided yet whether to buy it, mostly because of that.
Barry
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