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Originally Posted by DNSB
Personally, I like a tighter line spacing and I hate margins that waste a serious percentage of my screen. A right/left margin that almost touches the edge of the screen is just about perfect IMNSHO.
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Bringing the text closer to the bevel reminds me of when I was a child and starting to write: I would squeeze as much as possible into the margins of my school notebook. I have a very unpleasant aesthetic memory. Perhaps because I am used to the white space in printed books (which, of course, is not necessary in an e-reader), I like wide margins and line spacing. This may also be why brands promote their e-readers with an image more similar to a printed book.
In any case, our eyesight is highly adaptable. There have been times when I have reduced the margins and used narrow line spacing, and after a short while I have become accustomed to viewing the text that way. When I went back to using wider margins and line spacing, they seemed unpleasant to me... until I got used to them again, and then it was the narrow margins and line spacing that I disliked. As I have e-readers from different brands, with very different customisation options, I finally decided to find a common denominator for all my e-readers. I use the Kindle options on all of them, with some slight variations.
(The same thing happens to me with printed books. I have books with very different margins, line spacing and font sizes. I have never had too much trouble adapting to one type or another).