Thread: Paperwhite 3, Glo HD or Aura H2O?
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Old 10-21-2015, 06:57 PM   #72
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Percivale View Post
Hello dear forum members
I have been considering the purchase of my first e reader. It will be either Kindle PW3 or Kobo Aura H2O.
However, I have some doubts about both of these models.

1)I read that Kobo unfortunately has some quirk issue connected with margin settings. I mean quite big bars implemented at the top and at the bottom of the page. The first one shows the title of book whereas the other displays number pages. Both of them cannot be resized and they waste too much space. I would say that the advantageous 0,8 ich is completely wasted. I know that there is a setting which removes both bars, but it leaves no info about page numbers at the bottom. I don’t think it’s very comfortable. I would definitely miss info about read pages. I know that there is some patch that enables to customize the bars. Is it the only solution?
Not margin settings at and definitely not a "quirk". These are design choices of the people creating the reader. And the top is only displayed for kepubs. Yes, I agree they could be made smaller, but I don't think by that much without crowding the screen. The patches are the only way around this.
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3) Will I have to convert all epubs to Kobo epub format to be able to customize my epubs the way I want?
Probably not. If you convert to kepub, you get the title displayed and you obviously don't want that. Kobo ereaders do a very good job of interpreting the code in an epub to epub 2 standards. But, as every epub reader application or device interprets the standards differently, or use different defaults, if you have made changes to you epubs to get a look you like, you will probably need to make some changes to achieve the same look when you move to a different application or device.
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