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Originally Posted by Quoth
About 5 minutes programming and week testing, maybe, to have a margin that doesn't add 6% to the ebook margins. It's plain silly. On the really old Kindles you could edit a prefs file (which setting was destroyed if you selected a margin on the GUI).
It's not the only daft thing Amazon has done with Kindles.
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I think the problem is these design choices are made for the product page and review screen shots, not for the users. Having small margins looks ugly in the ads and in reviews, having large margin looks better. Having 4 or 5 margin choices looks "cluttered," so we're stuck with only 3. Looks trump functionality and flexibility. On the other extreme is something like Koreader, which has a ton of options and an overwhelming UI
We used to be able to reduce the margins by editing a config text file. I think that was a good compromise, keeping the clean UI while having a relatively simple way for people who care to tweak the setting to their liking. But they took that away because ...?