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Fine. It's Alex Verus #8, by Benedict Jacka. (It's all of them, FWIW.) I had some pm's with jHowell, and it just so happens that at font size 7, on Voyage/Oasis/PPW, you get a ton of 3-line paragraphs that move entirely to the ensuing screen. JH says he doesn't see it so much at other font sizes.
And, what font size do *I* read at? YES, yes, you win the golden ring, font size 7. JH, since Wolfie just HADDA know, feel free to discuss here. :-) (sigh). Hitch |
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I took a look at the book in question. Luckily it is one that I already had purchased so I could examine the actual book rather than the free sample. Unfortunately, it seems to be working as Amazon intends.
The book uses the default of widows and orphans set to 2. The author tends to write fairly short paragraphs that result in many paragraphs occupying three lines at a font size of 7. That is a worst case scenario since if the first two lines of a paragraph fall at the end of a screen they will both be moved to the next screen to prevent a widow or orphan. The effect is that the number of lines per screen changes with every page turn, being either full, one less, or two less. |
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>it seems to be working as Amazon intends.
>The book uses the default of widows and orphans set to 2 That's Amazon's default? Weird. |
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Given the book that Hitch is/was reading, you can lose up to three lines at the end of the screen. That to me is really annoying and not nice. That's why I check the CSS to make sure there are no widows/orphans other then body and I set them both to 1. |
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There is a Kobo patch for ePub to change the default for widows and orphans to 1. So when reading ePub and you get widows and orphans, you know it's in the CSS.
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I'll let Jon answer about the patch option, but you might like to know that you can also do it via the calibre KoboTouch & KoboTouchExtended driver without any hacking. See here for details.
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