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Originally Posted by Anak
The stock available space on the screen for reading purposes on the Kobo Glo (6") is:
kepubs: 74,522% (4.47 inch)
epub: 90,527% (5.43 inch)
The rest of the screen is taken by a fixed header (kepub) and/or footer (both formats) and/or left and right page margins (kepub) which can not be altered by the user.
This is probably not much different for other Kobo ereaders.
You can only increase this using the Patcher.
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Or you can insert FullScreenReading=true in the Kobo eReader.conf file's [FeatureSettings] section and get rid of the header/footer in both kepub and epubs though at the cost of having issues in kepubs with lines being cut off -- the last line at the bottom of the screen getting a few pixels and the first line at the top of the next screen completing the line.
As for the fixed right/left margins? They are not only set by the ereader's margin slider but are a combination of the ereader's margin slider and margins defined in the ebook's style. You can set the margin slider to it's minimum to see just what is defined within the ebook. And yes, some of them are ridiculously large but that is hard to blame on Kobo since their editing of ebooks does not seem to involve modifying the left/right margins. Or the horrible example I mentioned earlier where the margins were set in pixels taking away over 50% of the available screen space on a Touch size screen.
Regards,
David