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Originally Posted by davidfor
So, the device is respecting the design of the book. It does this in the same way as it respects the other settings. To me, this is the correct thing to do. The book designer decided to do it this way. At least I hope it was a conscious decision and not that they forgot. Or worse, didn't know they could do this.
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I think that the problem with the widows/orphans handling isn't that Kobo is paying attention to stated values in the epub, it's that it is setting non-zero values as the default.
If the default settings are being used, then the book designer isn't involved in the formatting. And face it, almost all ebooks aren't 'designed', they're mashed together with a minimal attempt at design, especially in regards to page layout.
Additionally, the whole widows/orphans thing is mostly an artifact from physical books. On an ereader, they really aren't that necessary.