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When you open the book the two page spread is often landscape.

• r00fus 14y ago
  Do you actually read both sides? On a textbook, magazine or encylopedia, perhaps - mainly because a physical book doesn't have search features. On a novel, it's portrait - you need paragraphs of context as you scan forwards and backwards to follow the information stream. On a computer with text search facilities, it's more convenient to have vertical text results and paragraphs - as long as the width is acceptable. Of course, TVs look better in a widescreen format, and computer screens have been forced to orbit TV display sizing for the past decade... and this is why we're stuck with useless 16:9 screens with not enough vertical pixels.