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Originally Posted by Apollyon202

Oh I get it. I think I misunderstood something. These things aren't that important to me, I guess. Or are they? Do these things fix the issue where sometimes at the end of a chapter the last sentence or word takes up a whole page, so you have to turn the page again just for the next chapter to start?

That's widows and orphans, and actually the way you describe it is the way I prefer it. The other option is regular gaps at the bottom of the page.

From your description it looks like it would take more time to do all of this (at scale) than just reading the book as it is and moving on to the next one. Unless it's automated.

No, it doesn't take as long as reading the book, unless you're a super speed reader. Generally it takes 15-30 min per book, sometimes less.

How do you edit your books? With Sigil and/or Calibre? I have to add that I only convert the epub files to kepub and that's it, especially since NickelTypeFix fixes most kepub renderer issues.

I edit with the calibre editor.

"Removing unnecessary margins from body text"

I mean I get it, but if I put my margins to minimal, all paragraphs look the same. Sometimes there's special formatting, like a citation with different margins (narrower), but that's there for a reason, like to differentiate it from the rest of the text. Do you also remove these?

No. I mean that some publishers put additional margins all around the text. I think kepubs ignore them, but epubs don't, and I want my books to look the same no matter which renderer I use.

What about ads? Yeah, sometimes there's a recommendation from the publisher to buy other books, but I just jump to the end and that's it, book finished. There was one time when at the end of a book there was half a chapter from another book, as a preview. Well yeah that's annoying, but I never check the end of a book I've never read before, so I only find out when I get there and I'm basically finished with the book. I hope that's the worst you get, and not something in the middle of a book.

The worst was 7 sample chapters at the end. I don't want that stuff, because it screws up the page count and the progress bar.

I also skip the TOC mostly, because even the titles of the chapters can spoil the content (for me) of the book.

I often use the TOC to look something up I've forgotten, and I also use it for chapter hopping, which doesn't work without TOC.

I've never seen different fonts in one book. More like I haven't seen a different font in a book other than what I set up in the settings.

Kepubs ignore all embedded fonts without patching. Again, epubs don't, and sometimes publishers embed a font for general text, in which case you can't even change it in the device settings (unless it's kepub).

In short, you don't see many of those issues with kepubs, but you will if you ever switch to a device that uses straight epubs.