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Originally Posted by ShellShock
It is not epub vs kepub, or Aura vs Glo, or even Aura vs Sony that matters, but Aura vs Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo's main competitor. If I was the Aura product manager, I would be worried. "What do you mean, our flagship reader, with the biggest screen yet, shows less text than the Kindle?" Fortunately for Kobo this is a software problem and not a hardware problem. The hardware is great, the software is...improving and can be made better than the Kindle.
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I agree with you on this. I have a KPW - got a good one with no lighting issues. I have compared my Aura to my Glo and prefer the light on the Aura (Glo is too blue) and I get 4 more lines of text on the Aura than on the Glo. I am happy with that, my eyesight is not good enough to allow me to max out the available text per page). But I have not compared the Aura with my KPW. I will have to give that a try. I would hope to get more than 1 extra line of text.
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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Regarding paragraph spacing (white space between paragraphs). I prefer to remove this myself (using Sigil), and would not trust code (Calibre, Kobo firmware etc) to do it. It is simple enough to set margin-top and margin-bottom to 0 on p elements, but this affects all paragraphs, not just the main body text. You end up with scrunched up table of contents, headings, title pages etc, which does not look pretty.
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I like the some white space between paragraphs because it makes it easier for me to read, but I don't want that spacing to too big. So it's good to be able to adjust it to suit.
Reading through this thread reminds me why I chose a Kobo when I wanted to replace my Sony PRS650. I wanted an ereader that supported the epub format, allowed me to buy from any store I chose, and gave me lots of options for customisation of fonts, margins etc. While the recent changes to Kobo's rendering of epubs is not a major issue for me, I can understand why it annoys other folk. Those of us who are not bothered by/like the book title header have enough options to keep us happy. However, I think Kobo needs to rethink its most recent changes. If they want to market their offering as a more open platform, with more freedom of choice than their competitors, then they really should make the title bar on epubs an opt in/out feature that users can choose for themselves.