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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Thanks very much. The page looks great. (Still, Kobo could reduce that friggin' page number space usage...)
Did you set the minimum spacing and margin in the device, or did you use a trick such as changing the config file?
36 lines of 66 characters is a total of 2376 characters per page. That's exactly what an average paperback would display. (They averages around 2400, at least the ones from Del Rey, Ballantine and Random House I've counted.)
I hope the font size is comparable to that of a paperback as well. Can the Aura make screenshots you could post? (The Kindle can do this by simultaneously tapping two opposite corners.) Then I could resize the Aura's screenshot to match the Kindle's, and compare them.
Does the chapter graph and time to read work if you convert an epub to kepub? I could understand that the graph is not calculated, but is coded into the kepub, but I'd expect time to read to work. It does with books side-loaded to the Kindle. I don't really mind the graph, but I did get a wee bit attached to Time to Read. I know, a paper book doesn't have that, but it's nice to know how long a book is going to take me to read. If I don't have much time, I wouldn't start a book that'd take me 40 hours.
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I didn't modify the line spacing, JSWolf indicated this one is set to line spacing of 1.01 and changing the font size does not change the line spacing. See screen shot below to compare to a paperback which is a nearly 30 year old copy of Asimov's Foundation and Earth (Del Rey). The paperback looks a bit orange due to its age though it doesn't look anywhere near that bad in real life, I might try changing the white balance and redo this picture (if I get bored some time
) Note the paper back is only 55 characters per line and 37 lines to the page, the font does look slightly larger on the paperback and the line spacing is significantly greater than it is on the epub.
The shot of the Aura HD has the menu showing so you can see how much space is available at the bottom between the last line of text and the line where the bottom menu starts, not quite enough for another line I don't think. Though to be honest I don't see why it can't be set for the menu to overlap the text at the bottom anyway (it already does on the top of the page) so you wouldn't be able to select the hidden text at the top of the page for highlighting for example so not sure what difference it would make if it over lapped the text on the bottom as well.
Edit: just realized that the last part of my statement really isn't correct, as when selecting text the top menu disappears so you can select that text. I'll use the excuse that it is way past my bed time
