Thread: Some questions on Aura HD use
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Old 07-22-2013, 01:04 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Nick Payne View Post
I've recently purchased an Aura HD - first ereader I've used. A few things I find rather annoying and would like to ask if they can be changed, as I can't find anything in the settings that changes them. The firmware in the reader is current.

1. Quite often, when I go forward a page in a book, the the page numbering displaying at the bottom of the screen ("Page x of y") doesn't increment, but stays the same. I have to advance two pages for the numbering to increment by one.
Page numbers for epubs are calculated in a weird way. The calculation is actually from Adobe and is based on the compressed size of the HTML files within the epub. It is the size of the compressed HTML file divided by 1024. Then, when reading, the uncompressed text is divided into that number of pages. And depending on the font size and other settings, the page can be spread over one or more screens.
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2. Is there any way to tighten the leading between paragraphs? Reducing the line spacing to the minimum reduces the leading within paragraphs quite significantly but hardly seems to affect the leading between paragraphs at all. If I'm reading a page that is a succession of single line dialogue paragraphs, it all looks a bit disconnected, and would be easier to read if the inter-paragraph leading were tighter.
This is the styles used in the epub. Whoever created it did so with a margin between paragraphs. Changing the line height should affect this, but it could have been set in absolute units rather than a relative unit. The only fix for this is to edit the book and change the style so this doesn't happen. A conversion in calibre can be done to change the style.
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3. The Kobo algorithm for determining where to put page breaks doesn't work very well. I sometimes get pages that are only approximately half full, with the following paragraph starting on the next page. From looking at pages where this happens, the common factor I notice is that it seems to be when the following paragraph is so long that it won't fit on a single page even if started at the top of the page. And as the author who I'm currently reading (Patrick O'Brian) frequently has long paragraphs, these half full pages happen quite often.
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This is a known bug in the renderer. And that seems to be the right description for when it happens. It has been around for a while and Kobo don't seem to have done anything about it.
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4. When I tap the RH side of the page to advance, about one time in five or six I get advanced two pages. There doesn't seem to be any sensitivity setting for that that I have found.[/QUOTE]

Some people seem to get occasional double page turns, some get occasional missed page turns. Some people find it is better to swipe to turn. There are no sensitivity settings for the touch. In fact, it isn't actually touch sensitive. The Kobo ereaders use infra-red beams across the top of the screen. Breaking this is what triggers the touch. How hard you press has no affect on this.
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