[pydave]

I've also found narrower columns of text generally easier to read. My browser is usually a half screen so many websites display their mobile mode.

I assumed it was this shorter lines effect that Pocket, Instapaper, etc put wide margins around your articles and large text.

[Breza]

Not to mention newspapers. I spend so much of my life looking at screens that I enjoy reading the Washington Post print edition over breakfast. My one year old calls it the "daddy paper."