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Originally Posted by DNSB
Does having a phone force us to read on them? I do test on phones. Heck, I even have a Kindle Paperwhite just to test on it.
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No. It's just a meme from that BlizzCon fiasco a few years back.
But to agree with the point: trying to make ebooks look exactly like printed pages is doomed to fail. Past the immediate need to test on a wide variety of devices and applications, skeumorphism is just bad design. Margins on printed pages serve two main mechanical functions:
* They provide space to accommodate mechanical deviations in printing, cutting and binding.
* They provide spade for the reader to hold without their fingers covering up text.
Neither of which are relevant to digital files: ebook readers don't have mechanical deviations in printing, and they have bezels with which to hold them.
If you absotively, posilutely must have the digital version look exactly the same as the printed version then you print your book, scan each page to static images (PNG or JPEG), and publish as a comic book archive (CBZ).