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Originally Posted by DNSB
Try checking into such items as widows and orphans (control how paragraphs are split between pages) -- these should have been left behind in hard copy but were carried forward into epubs, check into the top/left/right/bottom margin settings. Ebooks that specify over-large page margins (one horrible example on my Kobo Glo had .87" left/right margins on a devices with a 3.6" screen width) are not that uncommon.
Also, remember that Kobo follows the embedded styles rather than replacing them with a builtin generic stylesheet. If the publisher takes care to produce a decent product, the ebook can look great. If the publisher does not seem to know or care about what the ebook actually looks on screen -- such things as defining image size in pixels that look ridiculously small on a higher definition screen instead of using percentages or other relative measurements so the displayed image size is very close to the same whether you have a 600x800 or a 1404×1872 display, fonts that are defined in pixels or other absolute measurement, specifying line spacing that looks close to double spacing, etc., the ebook looks like crap.
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Yes, I've seen some horrific examples of books that have had incorrect parameters set. In some cases it looks as if the publisher has lost any computer readable text they had and have scanned the book from hard copy. (i.e. books bought from Amazon actually look worse than those from Project Guttenberg - where at least they proof read the scanned text. This is mainly hyphenation artefacts and such dross.)
The pixel sized images you mention are extremely common.
It's fortunate that Calibre can be used to 'repair' some of the worst instances.