Thread: ebook page dimensions - what size???
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Old 12-21-2010, 11:58 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Rylos07 View Post
My gosh, I have search high and low and I can find maybe one page from early 2009 on ebook page formatting. So frustrating. Frustrating because I do not know what I am doing!

Please, what are the best or most common page dimensions for ebooks in early 2011?

I am currently in PDF form and had been using 5.5" x 7" (8.5" x 11" w/1.5" mar L&R and 2" mar T&B. This does not look so good.

Been using latest: Open Writer > PDF Tools 4 > PDF Viewer.
These are children's books my father wrote. We immagine some will read on a ebook reader hand held and many or most will print.

Please help. I have been creating the website, setting up pay options, formatting documents, editing art work, fighting with .css, etc. and I am burned out! This is for my 84 year old father.

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Rylos
If it really must be a PDF, then the most common ebook readers at the moment have a 6" diagonal, with 3:4 aspect ratio, which works out at 3.6" by 4.8"

So that should be your page size. Do not add large margins - 0.1" is plenty for the text, and there's a good argument for having none for pictures - let your pictures go right to the edge. (The screen of the ebook reader doens't go right to the edge of the device - that gives plenty of 'margin'.)
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