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Originally Posted by frozennorth
I don't think that's the problem. I tried a few books (drm free) on both stanza and bluefire. On bluefire the margin on the left is about double the margin on the right on every book I tried (lowest margin setting). On stanza I don't get the wider left margin. It has nothing to do with publisher formatting as it even happens with an epub font test I got at this site.
And JS, the margin on the left is almost as big as ibooks's.  Actually ibooks also has a slightly wider margin on the left but the difference between left and right margin isn't quite as big since ibooks already has a big right hand margin also. |
The margins we apply are the same pixels left and right sides mostly, but a few pixels actually on the right extra are used for area to show page numbers for when users turn that on, the width of those margins are controlled by the margin setting control - which at the smallest setting is only a few pixels. Everything else is controlled by the CSS/HTML of the EPUB itself. Most reading systems do not actually faithfully render the CSS like Bluefire Reader. We need to be more aggressive in over-riding it, but as mentioned we can only over-ride "standard/known" selectors, and how aggressive to get is tricky as you don't want to lose special formatting when the intent is to, for example, further indent special passages.
As mentioned, I myself hate those extra margins. E.g. I just read "Reamde" on my iPhone and iPad and the margins in the book on the iPhone forced me to read landscape (not my favorite usually). Looking forward to fixing that.