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Originally Posted by davidfor
As to Kobo's settings for widows and orphans. The default in the spec is either 2 or 3. To me, Kobo should respect this.
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What spec? As I interpret your post: there's something somewhere that says widows and orphans should be set to 2 or 3... and Kobo decided to respect that?
What I believe is: Kobo has set their widows and orphans to 2 or 3, and of course should respect their own settings.
However, I don't understand (disagree with) the setting in the first place. What exactly is the advantage of a paragraph starting on the next page so that the first or last 2 or 3 lines don't end up "alone" on the previous or next page respectively? Have you ever seen a novel do that?
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Originally Posted by Book Monkey
However, it seems 2.4.0 has created a new problem for my Kobo Mini. Ever since I got the update, syncing seems to take forever and simply does not complete.
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Anyone else experience similar symptoms?
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Yes I think I have. And I've even experienced some time-outs.
I think the server just must be extremely busy with everyone syncing seventeen times a day to see if they'll get their new firmware yet.
(Or of course it could be a 2.4.0 thing, who knows.)
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Originally Posted by davidfor
I haven't really investigated these as I normally just delete them. But, I think this is an artefact of a calibre conversion. The original probably didn't split on chapters. The code there is something to put a space between the end of a chapter and the beginning of the next. When calibre converted and split the files, it split at the tag for the chapter which was the next line after that div.
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If you find yourself restlessly wanting to investigate this
the two books that I sent you in the testing-battery thread were originally not split. I think they contained about 7 chapters per file. I did let Calibre split them for me so if what you say is correct those books should have those nothingness lines as well. (Actually, I'm beginning to doubt whether I did actually send you the converted versions... I might have given you the un-converted for extra badness... hmm)