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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Take a look at that video at 3:46. You will see the settings. If you look at the third slider labeled Margins:, you will see that they are set to give large margins. The idea (as I guess) is to simulate similar margins to a Kindle. If the slider was over to the left, the margins would be less than the Kindle.
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Compare this to what you said earlier: "ePub's margins are based on the CSS code. If the CSS code says to have wide margins, then th ePub will have wide margins. It's nothing to do with software on a Kobo Reader."
From my point of view, this quote by itself states a decisive reason to avoid Kobo's inbuilt reader. I most definitely want the ability to switch off the inbuilt CSS and set my own styles, select between indented versus block paragraphs etc. I want this because a very common file format in my ebook collection is HTML - I save a lengthy talky webpage, load it onto the ereader and then read it. Often enough, some tinkering is needed for comfortable reading. The tinkering, to keep it simple, involves stripping all CSS written into the page and cleaning the HTML markup so that headings and titles are defined as headings and titles, paragraphs and blockquotes as paragraphs and blockquotes, etc, so that when I apply my own styles in the reading app in the ereader, everything makes visually perfect sense as it should. If the reading app cannot apply my preferred CSS, it's not a reading app worth the name. Same with epubs - some are beautifully formatted with the internal CSS and markup, let these be as they are, but others are atrocious and it's an instant improvement to switch their internal styles off.
As to the ability to set margins in Kobo reading app, yes, the settings are there, which is good. But when I first mentioned "outrageously wide margins" I included the footer/statusbar in the concept and I mentioned it too. Those are outrageously wide indeed and configurable/removable only by patching, mentioned in passing by the reviewer, which is near-equivalent to installing another app.
By the way, I'm sure you know the reviewer and you cannot blame him for ignorance or bias. You can only blame him for his preferences, but it really is not blameworthy to have preferences.