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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I read for pleasure, so it doesn't matter how fast or slow I do it. The less text on the screen, the more often you'll have to turn pages and this constant need to turn pages would drive me nuts.
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I have found one use for absurd margins. As my eyes age, I like to read with my glasses off in bed at night. But my myopia is so severe (-11 dioptres corrective lenses needed) that the Kindle has to be about 5cm from my face when I do that. That's fine, on the absolute minimum font size it's actually fairly usable -- but because it's flat and my eyes aren't, the edges are far enough away that the text is unreadably blurred again! For the top and bottom this is fine, I can just tilt it a bit as I read, but that doesn't work for the left and right edges -- you can't tilt it for *every line*. So I blow up the margins to make the text retreat from those blurred edges, and reading becomes easy again. Because the font is tiny I still get really quite a lot on a page, even that way.
When reading with my glasses on, the Kindle stays a sane distance from my face and I go back to the smallest possible margins, and font size 3.