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Originally Posted by Antioch
Davidfor, thanks, I'll give it a try when I purchase a Kobo.
Still, given the amazing array of flexibility and poweruser settings available on the Kobo, along with the volume of complaints regarding the wasted white space ( firmware hacks to remove whitespace), I still think that Kobo should add this setting to the firmware.
(My old Nook STR hasn't needed any settings to handle widows/orphans without wasting white space) |
Quite of a few of the complaints about how Kobo's ereaders display pages is due to Kobo (and Adobe) attempting to follow the epub standard styles embedded in the epubs by the publisher. Quite a few people feel that since most publishers seem to want to emulate a printed page with the wide margins on all four sides, Kobo should not follow the ebook stylesheet, instead using a default stylesheet that minimizes margins, headers, footers, etc to put the maximum text on each page. I've read ebooks on other ereaders that have a built-in stylesheet that is used instead of the ebook's stylesheet and I found that even more annoying. At least, with Kobo, I can edit the epub and make changes at lot more easily than a stylesheet embedded in the firmware.
As an example in quite a few ebooks, the ebook itself specifies wide right and left margins. Kobo's margin slider can increase the margins but not reduce them below the margins specified in the ebook. Another ebook reader I used used the same margins for all content which meant in-line content (poem, text message, code, etc.) that was intended to be indented was displayed flush with the remainder of content unless you indented it using non-breaking spaces.
My personal answer has been to edit virtually all the ebooks I read that are not DRM protected to use a stylesheet that makes the ebook display the way I prefer. This is not likely to be a popular technique with the vast majority of people owning Kobos but it works for me.
Regards,
David