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Originally Posted by DNSB
That one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is that the ebook reader should respect the way the ebook publisher styled the ebook. Did they want wide margins? Indented paragraphs? Large spaces between lines and paragraphs? Kobo seems to fall into the respect the publisher styling. Do you complain that physical books are not styled the way you would prefer? Ghu knows quite a few of them deserve complaints but do you even think about complaining?
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Most paper prose books (barring poetry/lyric sections and suchline) go edge-to-edge, indent paragraphs with no space between paragraphs, have line spacing that is half (or less) of the character height (and which can vary slightly from page to page to keep widows & orphans to a minimum), and know how to split paragraphs when there is a page transition.
Is it really so much to ask that machines that can change formatting and font size on the fly get these sorts of thing right? I think not.