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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I still don't see how a margin can help with that. A visual buffer? I've never seen a jarring gap at the bottom of a page, except when a chapter is much shorter than the page. And how would a fixed margin (fixed within a book) help with widows and orphans throughout the entire book?
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Your ignorance of it does not change it. In some ways I should be jealous, as it would cause much less frustration when setting books.
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And because I don't mind the lack of margins on my ereader doesn't mean I could care less about quality. But if I buy a book to simply read, be immersed in the story, I don't care how it looks. Which is why I used to buy those book in mass market paperbacks and now in electronic form. If I really want a book, to show and enjoy the artistic parts of the product (which does include, but not exclusively, the story!), I'll buy a hardcover or trade paperbacks.
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That's simply justifying a lack of concern for quality. I don't expect that to change at all, and it's extremely common here, so I know I'm inviting a nice angry mob for pointing out the low standards of the community. Doesn't change what it is though.
Even crappy mass market paperbacks are light years ahead of ebooks in quality.
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This is sad. I'm not half the snob that Ahi is. Why should I have to do all this typographic snob stuff?