Setting all margins to zero.
The TOR mobi of "Like a Mighty Army" by David Weber has some seriously fouled up left margins. Each successive section it gets wider on the left, and the top and right ones are also excessively large.
By the 6th HTML the text is scrunched into a column of single words.
I tried using Calibre to convert mobi to mobi and checked the margins box in the mobi settings and it didn't change a thing.
So I converted to EPUB, opened it with Sigil and changed every instance of margin in both CSS files to a single 0.
Bam! That's what I wanted. Saved then fed the edited EPUB back to Calibre, converted to mobi and now I have the smallest margins the Android kindle app will display. Now I want to do this to all my books which have their own margins added to Kindle's minimum, but would much rather have a sure-fire guaranteed margin remover (top, bottom and both sides) in Calibre so I won't have to do to conversions and editing CSS by hand.
Now if only Amazon would pay attention to people who want a *zero* margin option that runs the text right to the edge of the screen 'cuz we don't care a bit about a screen having the "look and feel" of a printed book. We want the *maximum text possible* on the screen. Mobipocket Reader for Palm had that.
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