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Originally Posted by miyata
My Question is about the bottom bar:
above the pagenumbers there is room for one more line of text, which never is used, I wanna use that line, as I have VERY bad eyesight I use relatively large Fonts and therefor wanna use as much of the screen as possible. On some pages there are two lines missing on the bottom, midsentence it leaves them free and begins on top of the next page. I am talking about sideloaded ePubs, in which I set any margin setting I found in calibre to zero.
I may do some "screenshots" this evening to better show what I mean.
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It is a well known issue. Kobo does use more space at the bottom than they really need, but, that is the design of the device. There can be some other things going on.
Firstly, to see how much space is not being used, tap the centre of the screen and bring the bottom menu up. Whatever is below the line is what Kobo has reserved for the bottom menu. Any space above it, is what is unused. If that space is less than a line in height, you can't do anything.
If the space is more than a line in height, then you are probably seeing the effects of widows and orphans. This is a CSS setting to prevent lines from a paragraph being left at the end of the screen. Or only one line on the next screen. Kobo uses a default of 2 or 3. Setting this in the CSS of your books to zero will reduce space wastage.
As to the margins, you are better to set them to "undefined" in the calibre conversion. This allows the you to adjust them on the device with the reader settings.