Thread: [Old Thread] Convert epub to mobi with wide left margin on Kindle
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Old 07-29-2010, 12:55 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by victoria0217 View Post
Hello everybody,
I just got a kindle, and started to convert my epub to mobi to read on Kindle, but I found this common problem exactly the same as described here:
http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1944

I converted my book and it looked fine on the computer viewer, but when I upload it to Kindle, it gets wide left margin which makes it looks weird.
After I did a epub to epub conversion (to extract the css file and put it in an epub form Sigil could open) and then opened it in Sigil I discovered that your epub has a a left margin of 1em. As I understand this it means the margin will be equal to one character. If it is 12pt font the margin will be 12pt if you increase font to medium or large it can increase to a 24 or 36 pt margin.

According to the ticket you cite the margins in the epub need to be cleaned up prior to conversion. Use Sigil to change the margins, save it and convert it again. Info on Sigil (epub editor) can be found in the Sigil forum.
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