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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That left margin/no right margin is a hold over from making Mobi eBooks. Mobi has a left margin, but no right margin. The symptom is called Kindleitis where an eBook is made to conform to Mobi even though it's ePub and/or KF8.
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That makes absolutely no sense, Jon. Even with no way to set a right margin, setting a left margin results in offcenter normal body text on old Kindles, new Kindles, and all epub devices. Nobody would do that on purpose for typical body text (nobody rational anyway). And the conversion to an old-style mobi would just ignore any right margins that were set anyway. There was never any reason to remove them from the source altogether. Good to see you're still getting mileage out of that anti-kindle broken record of yours, but that one was a bit of a reach. You've done better. Step it up.
There's no need to set left or right margins on the normal body text of a Kindlebook (or any other ebook). All readers come with their own defaults and user settings. Specifically setting a left margin of 2-3em and right margin of 0 for that situation makes even
less sense (even when lending your explanation a bit of creedence just for the sake of argument). Unless you believe they're creating Kindlebooks, then unpacking the html 3.2 source from the old mobi portion and using THAT to make the retail epub I just bought.
