Will the footer issue ever be fixed?

[neil74]

I have seen various threads which explain why the footer issue exists on the Kobo Aura (huge footer often losing a large proportion of the screen)

Do you think that Kobo will ever fix this, personally I find it damn annoying and will be the reason I would probably switch back to kindle in the future. I just get the sense vs my old PW that I am not getting so many words per page.

[Josieb1]

I buy DRM free ebooks, usually mobi as I have a Paperwhite and I convert them into ePub. I found some instructions on a blog about fixing the footer problem so I saved them into preferences. With the same font and size I get 20 lines of text on a Kobo to 22 on the Paperwhite

Edited to say I convert in Calibre

[Kasper Hviid]

Me, I think book pages looks butt-ugly without header/footer. This is most likely the reason why any printed book in existence have them. I would love to be able able to turn the header back on.

So like neil74, I would also very much like to be able to turn header/footer on or off ...

[Anak]

Originally Posted by neil74

I have seen various threads which explain why the footer issue exists on the Kobo Aura (huge footer often losing a large proportion of the screen)

Do you think that Kobo will ever fix this, personally I find it damn annoying and will be the reason I would probably switch back to kindle in the future. I just get the sense vs my old PW that I am not getting so many words per page.

The answer is likely to be never. But maybe one day Kobo will surpise us all…

[John F]

Originally Posted by Kasper Hviid

Me, I think book pages looks butt-ugly without header/footer. This is most likely the reason why any printed book in existence have them. I would love to be able able to turn the header back on.

...

I just went through some of my pbooks. Some of them don't have headers/footers (although they all have some white space at the top/bottom). I guess they don't exist?

[Kasper Hviid]

@John F: Don't worry, your books does exist - I just understand the terms footer/header differently. In my mind, 'footer' is the white space at the bottom, regardless whether it contains a page number. So what I meant was that pages looks butt-ugly without any white-space above and below the text.

[Lyn2012]

Originally Posted by Kasper Hviid

In my mind, 'footer' is the white space at the bottom, regardless whether it contains a page number. So what I meant was that pages looks butt-ugly without any white-space above and below the text.

I can agree with that, but for me 3-5mm is plenty of space at the top and bottom which then leaves a good sized area for the most important part, the text.

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by neil74

I have seen various threads which explain why the footer issue exists on the Kobo Aura (huge footer often losing a large proportion of the screen)

Do you think that Kobo will ever fix this, personally I find it damn annoying and will be the reason I would probably switch back to kindle in the future. I just get the sense vs my old PW that I am not getting so many words per page.

No they won't because for them it's a feature, not an issue.

[gargoyle67]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I buy DRM free ebooks, usually mobi as I have a Paperwhite and I convert them into ePub. I found some instructions on a blog about fixing the footer problem so I saved them into preferences. With the same font and size I get 20 lines of text on a Kobo to 22 on the Paperwhite

Edited to say I convert in Calibre

What settings do you use in Calibre to get rid of the footer gap ?

[ShellShock]

Do you know about the patcher? This will get rid of the footer and works well, although I would prefer Kobo to provide an official option to reduce/remove the footer.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by gargoyle67

What settings do you use in Calibre to get rid of the footer gap ?

I used the instructions on this blog http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...-wasted-space/

Specifically this bit

- After importing the ebooks into Calibre, select the ones you want to modify and choose “Convert books”.

- Make sure the output format is ePub.

- Click on the “Look & Feel” tab. Enter the following code into the Extra CSS box:

body {orphans: 0; widows: 0}

- You can check the box to remove spaces between paragraphs too.

- There’s also the option to remove existing CSS properties for fonts, margins, and padding under “Filter Style Information”.

- You can choose to set default line spacing to 0% and margins to 0 pt as well.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Do you know about the patcher? This will get rid of the footer and works well, although I would prefer Kobo to provide an official option to reduce/remove the footer.

I had read about the patcher but as my Kobo is less than two weeks ago I don't want to play with the software, I'd rather just convert the epubs myself.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I had read about the patcher but as my Kobo is less than two weeks ago I don't want to play with the software, I'd rather just convert the epubs myself.

The patcher has the advantage that you can reduce the footer from around 1cm to around 5mm. This does have the disadvantage that when you tap on the center of the screen and the menu pops up, the last 2-3 lines on the screen get covered making it hard to select words in that area.

Regards,
David

[jackie_w]

Just FYI for Kobo/calibre users...

There is no need to convert epub-to-epub to set widows/orphans to zero. See this post for details.

It should work equally well for all Kobo devices.

[Josieb1]

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