Line Size for page (FM 7.1)

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

Hi!
 
I'm designing a book pretty much from scratch, using FrameMaker 7.1. The
company used to use a 7x9 page size, but we don't actually print our
books, we distribute them in PDF format and then expect our customers to
read them online or print them off on a laser printer. If you print a
7x9 book to laser, you get a small amount of info in the middle of big
blank space, which is not only hard to read but wastes paper. For that
reason, I thought to change the page size to 8.5x11.
 
At first, I used margins of 
* 1.25" left , 1" right (right page), 
* 1.125" left 1.75" right (left page)
* 1.125" top
* 1.375" bottom
 
Now I'm wondering if this is too large of a line length. Is there any
data out there that suggest the optimum line length for reading? I note
that my margins are real close to the default margins that MS Word uses
in normal.dot for a 8.5x11 page, but of course that doesn't prove
anything (other than that I'm channeling the mind of someone up in
Seattle...).
 
Joe

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