Thread: Kobo Aura H20 2nd edition or Tolino Vision 4 HD for library books?
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Old 07-16-2017, 08:33 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Albert LeRoi View Post
Thank you all very much for your rapid and helpful replies!

I'm relieved to hear that the Kobo does not mess up ePub books. That was my main concern, since I will use it mostly to read books borrowed from libraries. The question was raised in an otherwise very positive review in this excellent French-language blog dedicated to e-readers: http://aldus2006.typepad.fr/mon_weblog/kobo/
A quick read of the Google translated version, the paragraph that mentions space at the bottom of the screen is referring to widows and orphans. This is a CSS setting that specifies what to do if a paragraph goes over a page. It set the number of lines in the paragraph that can be left at the bottom of the page (widows) and the number that must be on the next page (orphans). This means the bottom of the screen isn't always filled. The CSS specs say the default is 2, and Kobo uses this for epubs. Unfortunately, as the widows and orphans are rarely specified in epubs, that means you get the changing space at the end of the page.

Kepubs do not support widows and orphans in CSS. They are ignored and the renderer effectively uses 1.
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One other point: dictionaries. I notice that the Kobo manual warns that the dictionaries may not function with books borrowed from libraries. Have any of you any experience in this regards? Perhaps I should start a new thread in a different section?
The dictionaries work in epubs and kepubs no matter what the source. They don't work in PDF or anything that is actually an image. The "may not" is probably Kobo being cautious as I'm sure there PDFs in the available for borrowing.
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