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Originally Posted by LDB
According to the person who took the photo each was set to the margin / line spacing settings to maximize the amount of text on the screen and each was set to the smallest available font size setting.
Yes, the Nook has advantages due to maximum available settings. That's part of the whole picture and why in the photo the Nook is showing almost double the amount of text.
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Everyone has their own ideas of what constitutes a good layout of course, but to my mind the layout of the Nook screen illustrated is far from ideal. The margins are too narrow and the text much too cramped. There's a very good reason why books are printed with reasonably sized margins: centuries of typographical experience has shown that it's more comfortable to read that way.
For me personally, the benefit of a larger screen (and I do appreciate larger screens) is the ability to achieve a typographically pleasing appearance, not to cram as much text as possible onto a page!