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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
Either way you end up with fewer words per page than the device can display comfortably, and thus extra page turns, and since page turns take a little longer on e-Ink screens, a lot of users don't like that.
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I am definitely not an expert, but in my recent (and brief) foray into the typesetters part of the Web I was surprised to learn that they consider A4/letter page format to be "large" and worthy of two columns almost as a rule of thumb. That school of thought says that book format is smaller for a reason, that it is uncomfortable to deal with overly long lines of text.
This is a minefield of a subject, the safest thing is to declare "de gustibus non est disputandum" and leave personal preferences aside. But I am definitely curious to see what will come from all this drive to A4/letter sized readers, and how reading software will handle that increased real-estate. I wouldn't be surprised to find that my personal preferences, for example, differ based on the size of the reader. That slightly bigger font "feels right" on letter-sized device, and so on.