Thread: Glo Kobo Firmware 2.3.1
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Old 12-22-2012, 08:49 AM   #212
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
I think it is strange that Kobo decided on a default of 2 or 3. Using widows and orphans on an ereader is useless, as murg mildly suggested a few posts back. Actually, not just useless but confusing and annoying.
I'm not sure I agree with this. When I read on the computer (web page, document or using the calibre view), I move the text a lot more than is really needed. I don't just scroll when I get to the end, I tend to move the scroll bar to keep full paragraphs on the screen. In effect, I am manually managing the orphans and widows to force the paragraph to stay together. This makes it easier to read and take in the paragraph. As a lot of electronic text is formatted with space between each paragraph, this is an easy way to read. It means I can easily take in each paragraph. [To the other David: I really wanted to say "grok each paragraph". ]

Having said that, I do change the styles of my epubs to make the page look like a paperback page. That is what I am used to when reading novels and the gap between the paragraphs wastes to much space. I set the widows and orphans to zero, but I'm not sure if that is the right thing for me.
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More importantly, I don't think this is the only 'problem' that's going on. After I read this information a while back in a different thread I re-coverted all my epubs to include widow and orphan values of 0. This helped a lot (but did not completely get rid of slightly premature page breaks).
I see that as well. It is usually about a lines worth of space. When I look at the page it happens on, there is usually some formatting difference in the text. Chapter headings and things like a text in a superscript somewhere on the screen mean that a line takes a little more height than the other lines. The space left looks to be about a lines worth but I think any letters with tails would lose part of them.
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BUT. There is a bug of some kind that has been previously mentioned only a few times, where paragraphs that are longer than a page (or very long, I don't know the cutoff) always start on a new page. This meant that the book I was reading at the time (a Stephen King I think, with veeeerrry long paragraphs) frequently stopped only a couple of lines into a page, making me wonder if the chapter had already finished. But no, the next paragraph was just put onto the next page.

Now, I cannot remember what firmware this was (not more than 2 version back, maybe just one), but it was definitely not a widow/orphan thing.
I knew I forgot to mention something. There is a thread here discussing this problem. And you are right, it happens when the paragraph is longer than what will fit on a screen. As far as I know, it is new with 2.3.1
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