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Originally Posted by ahi
Regarding the margins... do you think it's sensible to go a route where smaller display size editions aim to minimize the margin, while the 10 inch display editions do margins comparable to actual paper books? The 10 inch display, after all, is almost around the size of a small to medium size paperback page.
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Actually, a 10" widescreen in portrait is about as wide and a bit taller than a typical hardcover. Most PDFs from print works will be comfortably readable and book-like without tweaking, and paperbacks will be blown up to about 150%. In FBReader, I read everything (xhtml formats) portrait with margins set to approximate the line-length of a hardcover. My preferences for line-length might not be universal, but it's at least as important as font size for comfortable reading.
The problem with PDFs--especially DRMed PDFs--on a laptop is the display software. ADE is considerably less functional than Adobe Reader, and neither launches ready-to-read.