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Old 09-04-2014, 03:40 AM   #13
Anak
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I was looking at your "left and right page margins (kepub) which can not be altered by the user". The left/right margins set by the ereader can be modified by the margin slider. The minimum is set by the ebook.
I checked again. Your right there are no left and right margins for kepubs either. I don't know why the margin slider was in the "1" position (could this be a default setting?) instead of "0" (slider to the far left) as I don't read kepubs.

This changes the outcomes to:
kepub: 79.785%.
epub: 90.527%

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
And that just goes to show how clueless they really are. A Kindle is not a valid Reader to test how eBooks look as Amazon forces margins and line-heights on the users. You need a Reader that doesn't have such forced settings so you can see what your CSS is really doing.
I agree. Would "country of origin" play a part in this? Like American publishers automatically format for Kindle because these devices have the largest market penetration? And the epub version is derived from it?

Slightly off topic (but layout related)
I asked Kobo (Netherlands) nicely if they could fix my problematic kepubs (you know the 'older books' with empty lines between p-tags, etc.) by simply reconverting or reprocessing these books to update the books to the latest "kobo code" modifications.

Their answer was: no.

While I've read here (and other forums too) that Kobo does fix these books in other countries where Kobo is active. Why isn't this standard policy for all countries?

Last edited by Anak; 09-04-2014 at 08:35 AM.
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