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Old 03-06-2026, 08:03 AM   #1
MountainMan007
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Problem with Calibre ebook viewer that is getting annoying, hope someone can help

In the ebook viewer, I have a problem that is quite an annoyance for me. I have read posts in the forum in the past, but this will be my first time actually posting about something, so please be gentle with me

When I am reading a book in the viewer, I am having a problem with the lines not staying aligned the same way in the window. Usually the lines get out of alignment and the bottom line gets 'cut off' in the viewer. Here are my current 'default style' settings in the viewer :

body {color:rgb(30,100,30) !important;
background-color:rgb(0,0,0) !important;
text-align:justify !important;
line-spacing:1.15 !important;
margin-top:0px !important;
margin-bottom:5px !important;
margin-right:25px !important;
margin-left:25px !important;
text-indent:3em !important;}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{color:rgb(50,120,50) !important;
text-align:center !important;
font-style:italic !important;
font-weight:bold !important;}

I just copied those out of a post where they were talking about viewer settings, and they seem to work pretty good for my needs. Except for this problem I am talking about. The lines seem to stray out of alignment and the bottom of the bottom line gets ' cut off ' in the viewer.

If I use the cursor to 'grab' the top edge of the window and pull up, it will kind of 'stretch' the window and the lines snap into alignment just right for me. Which is all of the lines being inside the viewer window, and just a tiny bit of background color being above the top line and below the bottom line and all the lines fully visible within the window. Great!

But as I scroll along, the lines keep wandering out of alignment, the bottom of the bottom line is 'cut off ' and I have to do the grab and stretch thing on the window again. Or the top half of the top line is cut off and the bottom half of the bottom line is cut off, but all the other lines are visible -- which to be honest I could live with. If the lines stayed aligned this way. But as I scroll they come out of alignment this way also, and I have to 'grab' the top of the window and 'stretch it' again. Then they pop back into proper alignment again, but soon wander back out of alignment as I continue reading.

This is annoying to me and distracting, and slows down my reading. Is this just a problem with the viewer that I am going to have to learn to live with? Or are there ways to change my style settings or some other setting and get the lines to always stay aligned, and even better, stay aligned properly and all visible in the window just right? Thanks for any help anyone can give me on this problem, as I said it is becoming very distracting and slowing down my reading.
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