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Originally Posted by Calenorn
UThis was a problem with my Mini. Why on earth does Kobo firmware work like that? Scrubbing line-height commands from the css in EVERY book is a major pain! (And not even possible with library books.)
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They do it like that because there is no way to do it that works well for all books.
The firmware can choose to honour the publisher's use of line-height, or not:
1. If the publisher's use of line-height is honoured then well-crafted ebooks will display correctly and line spacing will be adjustable by the user where appropriate, but badly-crafted ebooks will not allow the user to adjust the line spacing.
2. If the publisher's use of line-height is not honoured, then well-crafted ebooks will not display correctly, but the user will be able to adjust the line spacing in badly-crafted ebooks.
So the way it is now the problems only happen to badly-crafted ebooks. If they changed it then problems would happen with well-crafted ebooks. In other words, doing it differently would punish good publishers to fix the problems created by bad publishers.