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Originally Posted by davidfor
The page numbering has nothing to do with the gaps at the bottom of the page. To me, this is a problem in the book. And I know that no-one will agree with me, but, I'll explain.
The gap is caused by the settings of the widows and orphans style setting. The "widow" is that last line from a paragraph that appears at the top of the next page. The "orphan" is the solo line at the end of a page. CSS styles support setting the number of lines for both of these. The default is either 2 or 3. Kobo seem to be using 3.[...]
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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.
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). 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.