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This quick and dirty number juggling did not allow for trimming the margins to increase the size of the images. My daughter's manga ebooks do not seem to do so.
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I'll take your word for it. The last tankōbon I purchased were the four translated Golgo-13 volumes released in the mid-eighties. From memory and the tankōbon I looked at while I was in Japan, they are about the size of the Libra. But I didn't have a Libra on hand to compare.
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The Sage is a 3:4 aspect... while tankōbon is 3:4.27 meaning that using the 1920 vertical pixels of the Sage would leave... a ~0.4 cm margin on each vertical side.
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Yeah, I have the same problem with American comics. Anything where the page is essentially an image will result with empty space on the sizes or top and bottom unless you get very lucky in the aspect ratio.
At any rate, the 3:4 aspect ratio should work better for manga than the bulk of android tablets which tend to have 16:9/16:10 ratios.
The best luck I've had (with American comics) is with a Microsoft Surface and a Google Pixel Slate, both of which have an aspect ratio of 3:2. There are still margins, but they are very slim, and the margins change publisher to publisher.