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Originally Posted by Jellby
There cannot be a single "best" value, the line spacing varies between fonts, depending on how they are designed. For some font a line spacing of 1 may cause ascenders and descenders to just touch, for a different font they may overlap with the same value, and for yet another font there may be a gap between them. Line spacing is a bit like font size.
And this is not a Kobo issue/feature, it's just the way fonts work.
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which supports the case that if an app is going to offer a choice of fonts and font sizes then it is poor design to not also offer control over line spacng .
I can live with apps that "know best" if that consistently make smart choices, but then they combine poor choices with a take it or leave it attitude, well...
The Kindle fire native reader app has just 3 line spacing options, no slider for fine tuning, but they all look OK to me -it has an acceptable layout on all the fonts that I've tried, and it has a good range of font sizes.
If it accepted epub I would look no further but it doesn't and for reasons that I've aired elsewhere i don't want have to convert my tweaked epub reading copies to azw,
[To restate why: it is because calibre wont let me run that conversion, unless I lose my valued original-epub backups from its library. it insists on making the azw from the original untweaked epub instead.]
The Kobo android app has 3 fonts, which all look much the same, and NO line space controls, which is poor, and which is far worse than what they offer on their own dedicated readers.