30 Days of Thanks - Day 12 - Wide Margins

I once heard that anyone who reads a book without a pen in hand is not really reading. I would have to agree. Underlining or bracketing passages, jotting down notes, and interacting with the text brings that greater life to reading. As such, wide margins are a treat to any dedicated reader. These give you the space to become intimate with the work - merging minds as you scrawl out your meditations and make the codex an old friend. These margins must be clean. Lined margins steal space and constrict the relationship. The size of the margins must also be nonrestrictive to the size of the type. What good is it to increase your space at the sacrifice of the connecting area? Unfortunately, most wide-margin Bibles have yet to understand these two conditions and also seem to enjoy maintaining a two column format which makes the provision of wide margins even more pointless.

Though it may sound silly, I am thankful for wide margins that allow me to turn my reading into a conversation.