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Originally Posted by icallaci
On my Aura, the top margin is perfect while reading. Then, when I call up a menu, the top menu covers a couple of lines of text. This is fine, because when I need to do something with the menu, I am not reading. But the bottom margin is very wide, and this wide margin is where the bottom menu appears. It seems that the wide bottom margin is reserved at all times for a menu. I would prefer the bottom menu to act similarly to the top menu. Give me text all the way to the bottom of the page while I am reading, and when I need to do something with the menus, go ahead and cover up a couple of lines of text at the bottom.
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There are two reasons for the space at the bottom. Firstly, it will always display the page number. Personally, I want this and from comments here, it is about even on whether people want this or not.
The other reason is for annotations and the dictionary. When you mark text, the bottom menu is displayed with options for annotations, dictionary and search. If this menu covered part of the text, then you would not be able to see the selection in that area, or change the selection to words in that area.
But, I do think Kobo could reduce the size. Reducing it by a third would worl without changing the icons used. Halving it might need different icons.