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Originally Posted by JasperGeh
Hey people 
I recently got a Aura One and really enjoyed reading with it. When I was starting a new book, however, the header with the book title was missing, so the text stretched to the very top, there was a larger gap at the bottom of the screen, and page numbers were overlaying with the text (I figured I can switch those off in the settings). See the pictures attached.
I found that this was the case with a number of my ebooks.
I am not deep into ebook-formatting/coding and have basically no idea what to make of this. It's okay so set fonts and sizes new, but some ebooks being rendered this weird, is a bit of a turn-off. On the Kindle, they all look uniform. What's the reason here? |
Your first image is of a kepub format book but your second image is of a standard epub book. Kobos run 2 different applications for the 2 formats.
Only kepubs display the book title in the header. There are quite a few differences between the kepub app and the epub app. You will find other threads in this forum discussing the pros and cons of each. One was very recent so you shouldn't have far to look.
Books bought and sync'd directly from the Kobo bookstore servers will be in kepub format, but there are several other ways to format-shift your sideloaded books to kepub format if that is your preference. Using the Calibre ebook management software is one way but there is also a standalone kepubify utility, again, discussed elsewhere in these forums.
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Originally Posted by JasperGeh
Similarly for footnotes. Some open as pop-ups, other just jump to the corresponding page in the Notes-section. On my old Paperwhite the same ones open as a popup. Others, which don't pop-up on the Kindle, do so on the KA1. Is there a system behind it?  Unfortunately the really footnote-heavy book only opens pop-ups on my old Paperwhite... |
Only kepubs will display footnotes as pop-ups, standard epubs (or anything else) will not. If you have a kepub which does not display footnotes as pop-ups then it is usually due to a problem with the way the footnotes have been coded in the book's internal HTML code. If this is the case I'm afraid it's only going to be fixed by opening the book in an epub editor (calibre or Sigil), rolling up the sleeves and fixing the HTML.
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I see from your other thread that you have installed KOReader. This is yet another variable to contend with in how your epubs will display. I can't offer any advice on that but hopefully you'll get some answers over there.
As you are probably discovering, Kobos offer lots of choice but finding your personal version of 'perfect' can be a bit overwhelming to start with