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Originally Posted by cybmole
i disagree - with my old sony readers - they would override book css & give a uniform reading experience.. I never needed to know about line-heights CSS or how to tweak it.
Kobo have chosen to let book settings over-ride device seeings - that is a deliberate choice - & personally I call it a bug.
A device that is advertised as " you can adjust..." should do what it says - all the time.
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I'd have to disagree. Kobo choose to respect the settings chosen by the producer of the ebook. It's hard to call this a bug. A bad design decision, maybe.
So far I've found only 3 ebooks where some cornmeal for brains specified the fonts size in pixels so they could not be adjusted. Depending on the publisher, you might find yourself having to adjust the font size once in a book but I have never found a book where I had to power cycle the ereader before it would adjust the font size.
Personally, I prefer the way that Kobo lets the ebook/publisher set the appearance of the ebook. I've used other ereaders and ereader application that disregarded the ebook's styling which led to things like tiny images pasted up in the upper left corner when the CSS was trying to use the full screen for a centered image, chapter headings that were against the left margin and marginally larger than the body text instead of being centered and double the text size, paragraphs indents that were disregarded, etc. Once I've edited an ebook to the style I want, my Kobo ereaders display the text correctly in almost every instance.
As an example, I recently purchased Wen Spencer's
Wood Sprites. The chapter heading is a graphic with either a single line or a double line of text. On my Aura HD, the graphics were on the small side but a simple edit to add two classes specifying the height of the graphic (one for single line, one for double line) and the chapter headings now display on a 600x800, 1024x758 or 1040x1440 screen using the same % of the screen width/height. They also display correctly on an iPad Air and Nexus 7 HD using DLReader and/or the Kobo app.
Regards,
David