in all seriousness it is very disappointing when you open a book and there are thin margins with small and dense type like this. 500 words a page is two pages. why are you doing this to me
liz 🎐 @lizetteratura
Oct 17
when you open a book and the pages are full of words 😭😭😭

Oct 17, 2025 · 8:24 PM UTC

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literally the least relatable post ever made. what are you even talking about? yeah, man, you're right, you get more book per book. do you cry when you open a box of candy and it contains more candy than you thought?
sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco
Oct 17
in all seriousness it is very disappointing when you open a book and there are thin margins with small and dense type like this. 500 words a page is two pages. why are you doing this to me
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yeah you’re right. i’m ending it all tonight when i get home from karaoke
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People are prob gonna yell at you but you are right and im glad you said it.
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i like it when the page helps you breathe
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bonus points if the pages are bible-grade onionskin. absolutely zero sense of forward progress. read for two hours and you're on page xvii of the foreword (not yet to the introduction or translator's note).
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I feel completely the opposite. I feel like I'm about to eat a full meal. When I open a book to an airy wide margin with spaces between each line I'm like... oh great, popcorn for dinner again...
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this is the best way, reading a book with 5 inch margins and 40 words on each page feels extremely wrong. then the book is thin and tall and i feel like a goober reading an airport dime novel
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Shit ain't nothin' to me, man (slowest I've ever read a book)
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I live for this shit, condense my tome, I want each chapter to be six pages
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Back in boredom times they'd do this but then also make the book the size of a tic tacs box and 6" thick, and the paper would be strange. And that was your budget option. a book that just sucks dick to hold
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I hate the opposite more, a thin wide and tall book that could have been just normal sized if they didn't have huge margins or maybe even pocket sized
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this is why I like my kindle paperwhite, I figured out my optimal reading layout and now all my books can just be like that
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I’m at the stage of life where impossible small margins and font size essentially mean I’m not reading the book.
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How my eyes feel after 20 pages. Be damned if you want to make marginal notes.
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Anything this dense, comprised of wall to wall text, that doesn't have extremely elaborate idiosyncratic formatting (like the spiral poems in Alice in Wonderland), that isn't a difficult to find rarity, I'm just going to read on an eReader with an eInk screen and size up the font
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There’s not even enough room to hold it at the bottom!
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47 lines per page = fails the Gutenberg bible test
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I don’t know if it’s the case with this copy of Austen, but many books in public domain are available online for free. People copy and upload them to platforms like Lulu or the self-publishing arm of Amazon. But they don’t bother with any kind of reader-friendly formatting. 1/2
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i love these margins
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I read on Kindle at max size with dyslexia font on. It's like eating baby food
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Nunca van a tener a ese perro dentro de ustedes ni hablar
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Hmm. I think the worst is when there’s literally no paragraph indents/breaks. The latest Nobel lit prize winner has books like that and it amps up the challenge of reading bc it’s so easy to lose track of where you’re at Dx good writer tho but gosh dang those text blocks.
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This doesn't matter if the text is set in Jenson Pro.
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Somewhere, an entire tree will survive for another day.
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If you have trouble because of the font size and spacing, use reading glasses! You know what books have wide spacing with large letters? Children’s books! You should be glad when you come across books like this to read; it means you’re reading at an adult level! 😊
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I love those older books with sumptuous two-inch margins.
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I kinda love it if I’m being honest it makes it easier to just zone into the story
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it's probably a sign you need reading glasses, it made this much better for me
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read the hunchback of notre dame like this and i wouldn’t wish it on my worse enemy tbh. think it worsened my astigmatism
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The lines may be too long. If a line has more than ~75 characters it becomes hard to do a visual “carriage return” to the correct next line.
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The layout for fresh green life is immaculate btw
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Hurts my eyes really bad tbh
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