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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Could you please tell me how to go about settings margins such as these?
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Without patching the firmware, just change the page margin in the book's stylesheet to
@page {margin: 12pt 0 0 0}. You can do this automatically when sideloading the book from Calibre by ticking the "Modify CSS" option in Calibre's KoboTouch driver and creating a file called kobo_extra.css in the root directory of your device containing:
Code:
@page {margin: 12pt 0 0 0}
div, p {widows:1; orphans:1;}
(the orphans/widows setting is not strictly part of the margin, but this setting will override the default or the publisher's settings in the book which is to add up to two extra blank lines at the botom of the page).
There are some books where the above might not work because of the way the publisher has created the stylesheet, but those books can be fixed by using the Modify ePub plugin in Calibre to set the page margins (and remove the .xpgt file if necssary) before sideloading the book.
My device is actually patched though, I use a custom footer in combination with a patch to make the top and bottom margins adjustable from the device. The photo was taken with the slider set to margin size 6, which is what I would normally use for reading epubs, but I can make all four margins bigger or smaller with the adjustment slider on the settings (Aa) menu.
Edit: The advantge of patching is that I can switch between normal mode and full-screen mode and still have even top and bottom margins. (If you set the top margin by changing the book's stylesheet in Calibre, then it will only look balanced in normal reading mode. When you switch to full-screen mode the top margin will be much larger than the bottom margin.)
Edit2: The above really only applies to epubs. If you convert to kepub then there is no need to add any margin, as the kepub reader has very large built-in margins as part of the header/footer in normal mode, and the top/bottom margin is adjustable for kepubs in full-screen mode without a patch.