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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Hey ducks,
Yeah as I said, I habitually set widows and orphans to zero, largely because I dislike erratically-lengthed pages and, as APe mentioned, the Kobo is averse to breaking paragraphs nad sometimes breaks text after only a half a page.
Not sure how common that is — the only other eReader I've owned was an iRiver, and that did the same thing, so maybe it's a behaviour of ADE on some devices that use it. The zero setting gives me even-length pages ... for the most part. There's still a few Kobo idiosyncracies — like its habit of flicking the last line of a chapter, if it falls on the last line of a display page, over to the next page, where it sits on its purposeless lonesome.
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ADE does limit the size of the file containing a chapter and will break it if it is too large. Calibre also has such a setting. Generally a 100K compressed or about 300K expanded is the limit for a file size containing text. The reason is that a full file must be pulled into RAM all at once and some readers have a limited amount of RAM storage. You may want to examine, not the number of pages, but the file size. This is the determining factor.
Dale