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Originally Posted by jusmee
Nothing magic about reducing vs increasing. If you allow them to be altered, might as well be either way - in fact it should be allowed either way. Remember, the publisher has no knowledge of the format and/or shortcomings of your hardware device - therefore you need to provide the user with the best possible reading experience - original stylesheet not excepted.
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What I see is two different items here. The margins set by the Kobo and the margins set by the stylesheet. You can reduce or increase the margins set by the Kobo so to speak widening or shrinking the width of the column the epub will be displayed within. Within that column, the stylesheet can control the margins including such items as centering by using a margin:auto style.
One of the ereaders I've used does allow overriding the epub's margins. This did strange things to the display of one IBM publication where the images shift to the left margin while the captions are centered since they used different styles for centering. This type of behaviour is one of the reasons for my preference for mucking with the epub's styling using external tools such as Sigil or Calibre. As for the decision by Adobe with ADE/ARM to allow margin:auto to be interpreted as margin:0, well, EXPLETIVE DELETED!
You might want to check out Liz Castro's Pigs, Gourds and Wiki site for some interesting reading about epubs and the joys of different implementations.
Regards,
David