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Originally Posted by LDB
Confused. My Kindle, under the font A,a header, offers a layout tab with 3 options for margins and 3 options for line spacing. It has done that for as long as I remember. I keep each at the minimum to get the most text per page. Switching to the max setting of both literally cuts the word count per page in half, give or take a word.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
The minimum left/right margins on a Kindle tend to be much wider than the minimum margins on most other devices. I tend to add some CSS when creating azw3/KF8 ebooks from epubs to shrink those margins. On a Paperwhite 4, this increases the available screen width by ~9%.
Code:
@media amzn-kf8 {
html {
margin-left: -50px;
margin-right: -50px;
}
}
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
tomsem was complaining that kindles don't allow lines of text to be set short enough, the opposite complaint most people have. The quote from his message did not provide enough context.
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I had read tomem's original message however I was responding to LDB's message hence the quote from LDB not tomsem. LDB was discussing how to increase the available length of lines which is what I was responding to. My old eyes like a large enough font that I seldom run into issues with line length when reading in portrait layout.
Since an Elipsa with the margin set to 0 both in the CSS and margin slider literally goes from one edge of the screen to the other, I find Amazon's idea of margin adjustments to be rather sad. Now if Kobo would allow overriding the margin size set in the CSS/inline styles so I didn't have to edit some of those books published by idiots who think a 2.5cm wide left/right margin is a good idea. I know it looks more like a paper book but why waste that much of the screen on those margins?