Setting all margins to zero.

bizzybody · 09-13-2014, 04:05 AM

The TOR mobi of "Like a Mighty Army" by David Weber has some seriously fouled up left margins. Each successive section it gets wider on the left, and the top and right ones are also excessively large.

By the 6th HTML the text is scrunched into a column of single words.

I tried using Calibre to convert mobi to mobi and checked the margins box in the mobi settings and it didn't change a thing.

So I converted to EPUB, opened it with Sigil and changed every instance of margin in both CSS files to a single 0.

Bam! That's what I wanted. Saved then fed the edited EPUB back to Calibre, converted to mobi and now I have the smallest margins the Android kindle app will display. Now I want to do this to all my books which have their own margins added to Kindle's minimum, but would much rather have a sure-fire guaranteed margin remover (top, bottom and both sides) in Calibre so I won't have to do to conversions and editing CSS by hand.

Now if only Amazon would pay attention to people who want a *zero* margin option that runs the text right to the edge of the screen 'cuz we don't care a bit about a screen having the "look and feel" of a printed book. We want the *maximum text possible* on the screen. Mobipocket Reader for Palm had that.

JSWolf · 09-13-2014, 04:23 AM

Wait, there's a much better solution then the way you are doing it. Once you get the ePub the way you want it, don't convert to Mobi. Nope, waste of time to convert ePub to an obsolete format. Just get an Android app to read ePub and load the ePub to read. That way you get your choice of margins instead of Amazon's forced margins. And any other changes you want to make to the ePub you can do even if it's something Mobi doesn't support.

eschwartz · 09-14-2014, 01:47 AM

Or if you just happen to just like the Kindle app... carry on.

bizzybody · 09-14-2014, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Wait, there's a much better solution then the way you are doing it. Once you get the ePub the way you want it, don't convert to Mobi. Nope, waste of time to convert ePub to an obsolete format. Just get an Android app to read ePub and load the ePub to read. That way you get your choice of margins instead of Amazon's forced margins. And any other changes you want to make to the ePub you can do even if it's something Mobi doesn't support.

Well, that's completely unhelpful.

09-13-2014, 04:05 AM	#1
bizzybody Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 7742186 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati	Setting all margins to zero. The TOR mobi of "Like a Mighty Army" by David Weber has some seriously fouled up left margins. Each successive section it gets wider on the left, and the top and right ones are also excessively large. By the 6th HTML the text is scrunched into a column of single words. I tried using Calibre to convert mobi to mobi and checked the margins box in the mobi settings and it didn't change a thing. So I converted to EPUB, opened it with Sigil and changed every instance of margin in both CSS files to a single 0. Bam! That's what I wanted. Saved then fed the edited EPUB back to Calibre, converted to mobi and now I have the smallest margins the Android kindle app will display. Now I want to do this to all my books which have their own margins added to Kindle's minimum, but would much rather have a sure-fire guaranteed margin remover (top, bottom and both sides) in Calibre so I won't have to do to conversions and editing CSS by hand. Now if only Amazon would pay attention to people who want a zero margin option that runs the text right to the edge of the screen 'cuz we don't care a bit about a screen having the "look and feel" of a printed book. We want the maximum text possible on the screen. Mobipocket Reader for Palm had that.

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09-13-2014, 04:23 AM	#2
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,756 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Wait, there's a much better solution then the way you are doing it. Once you get the ePub the way you want it, don't convert to Mobi. Nope, waste of time to convert ePub to an obsolete format. Just get an Android app to read ePub and load the ePub to read. That way you get your choice of margins instead of Amazon's forced margins. And any other changes you want to make to the ePub you can do even if it's something Mobi doesn't support.

09-14-2014, 01:47 AM	#3
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Or if you just happen to just like the Kindle app... carry on.

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