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Originally Posted by theonna
The thing with the bottom space is that it is not consistently the same size, it keeps jumping from about 2 lines to about 4, it seems there is a setting not to put the paragraph at the end of a page, unless all of it fits.
Update does not tell you that it is updating its database either, it just feels that it is frozen at reboot, but it is actually going through the motions.
I understand that people were talking about wasted space on Kobo page ad nauseum, but why not let readers pick their preference, some of us like bigger margins, some don't, some want information on the book displayed, some don't, I, for one, would like to have control of my reading space.
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The number of blank lines at the bottom of the page can be reduced by adding
Code:
widows: 0;
orphans: 0;
to the stylesheet for the ebook. Either Sigil or Calibre can do this. Without this setting, the Adobe ARM renderer will use a default of 2 (unless you get a version that been set for 3) for both those values. Without these settings, a paragraph that would leave 1 or 2 lines at the bottom of a page (orphans) would be moved to the next page leaving blank lines and a paragraph that would leave 1 or 2 lines at the start of the next page (widows) will have enough lines moved to the next page to leave 3 or more at the top of the page, again leaving blank lines at the bottom of the previous page.
See the following links for a bit more information:
MobileRead:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=133042
Orphans:
http://xhtml.com/en/css/reference/orphans/
Widows:
http://xhtml.com/en/css/reference/widows/
Regards,
David