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Originally Posted by barryem
I always set my margins at the minimum on my Kindles but when I began also reading on my phone when I'm away from the house I soon realized I read faster on the phone. Quite a lot faster and with no extra effort. I remembered reading in some kind of article years ago that newspaper columns were narrow because people could read them faster that way. I decided maybe that's why. ...
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Yeah. I think when I was being taught how to set up columns (way back in the late 70s) the "ideal" was supposedly 35 characters. (I'm guessing at a certain font size, but it's been a long time now.) I think, supposedly, this was the right distance for your eyes to scan the line without losing your place in the paragraph (when going to the next line). May be, but I still like my margins narrow on my eReaders. I don't seem to have any trouble scanning over and down properly and something about having to turn too many pages irritates me.