diff --git a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readertypography.lua b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readertypography.lua
index 850d74d4a..be4ca2e2b 100644
--- a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readertypography.lua
+++ b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readertypography.lua
@@ -374,7 +374,6 @@ When the book's language tag is not among our presets, no specific features will
                 right_default = alg_right_hyphen_min,
                 -- let room on the widget sides so we can see
                 -- the hyphenation changes happening
-                width = math.floor(Screen:getWidth() * 0.6),
                 default_values = true,
                 default_text = _("Use language defaults"),
                 title_text = _("Hyphenation limits"),