JSWolf, could you please share your nickel.yaml values from the patches called "Reduce new header/footer height" and "Custom header/footer captions"?
Based on this comment:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=18
you have a very nice header/footer balance and the book's text still fills most of the display.
One thing though, I have Nickelclock, and the clock is fine, but if the battery is visible, the book title and page count in the footer isn't, or vice versa.
I guess you don't use Nickelclock, or you don't have that setup anymore since your comment I linked here, but I thought worth a shot if you still...