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What I want to know is if the settings are changed like increasing the font size, does that mess with the line height? |
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04-25-2013, 08:08 PM | #212 | |
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If the epub specifies a line height of 1.2.em, what happens? Does the Kobo use 1.3em, or does it increase line height by 1.3 (130%), for a total of 1.56? That last option would explain why I see so many reviews where the reader displays a puny 18 lines of text or so. That's just ridiculous. (I have some ebooks that specify many font-sizes and line heights for various parts of the book, and I don't intend to mess with that. The only thing I take out are any embedded fonts, and any "font-family" settings, so I can be sure my paperwhite will use my custom font.) Maybe everything I'm trying to find out is moot, because I can't order the thing anywhere. WHSmith's in the UK does not send to the Netherlands. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-25-2013 at 11:03 PM. |
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it does work on side-loaded epubs as long as you use one of kobo's fonts Chapter graph does not work on side loaded books, all you get is percent read for the book as a whole. Quote:
No way to disable the page number at the bottom that I am aware of. Last edited by jiminrussell; 04-25-2013 at 10:47 PM. |
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Thanks very much. The page looks great. (Still, Kobo could reduce that friggin' page number space usage...)
Did you set the minimum spacing and margin in the device, or did you use a trick such as changing the config file? 36 lines of 66 characters is a total of 2376 characters per page. That's exactly what an average paperback would display. (They averages around 2400, at least the ones from Del Rey, Ballantine and Random House I've counted.) I hope the font size is comparable to that of a paperback as well. Can the Aura make screenshots you could post? (The Kindle can do this by simultaneously tapping two opposite corners.) Then I could resize the Aura's screenshot to match the Kindle's, and compare them. Does the chapter graph and time to read work if you convert an epub to kepub? I could understand that the graph is not calculated, but is coded into the kepub, but I'd expect time to read to work. It does with books side-loaded to the Kindle. I don't really mind the graph, but I did get a wee bit attached to Time to Read. I know, a paper book doesn't have that, but it's nice to know how long a book is going to take me to read. If I don't have much time, I wouldn't start a book that'd take me 40 hours. Last edited by Katsunami; 04-25-2013 at 11:10 PM. |
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The gap at the bottom for the page number is sized so that when the bottom menu is displayed, it won't cover any text. It would be good to see a shot with the menu as there is a line drawn across the screen at the top of the menu area. This will show how much space is unused in the text display area and whether an extra line could fit in or not.
As to the page number/menu area, it could be made smaller. But, with my big fingers, I don't want it much smaller. |
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04-26-2013, 12:08 AM | #219 | |
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The font options and the bigger screen makes the Aura a desirable reader to me. Sometimes, the font options of the Kindle irk me. With some books, I set size 3, with others it's 4, but sometimes there should have been a size 3.5... And I'd wish to fatten Palatino, for example. The Kindle can't do these things. I really didn't like the Glo's almost azure blue front light, but I like the warm yellowish one of the Aura. I actually like it more than the Kindle's colder white. I just hope the service and firmware issues are a bit exaggerated, should I decide to get this reader after it becomes available. I'll probably have to get it from Germany again.... Last edited by Katsunami; 04-26-2013 at 12:13 AM. |
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04-26-2013, 12:20 AM | #220 | |
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The shot of the Aura HD has the menu showing so you can see how much space is available at the bottom between the last line of text and the line where the bottom menu starts, not quite enough for another line I don't think. Though to be honest I don't see why it can't be set for the menu to overlap the text at the bottom anyway (it already does on the top of the page) so you wouldn't be able to select the hidden text at the top of the page for highlighting for example so not sure what difference it would make if it over lapped the text on the bottom as well. Edit: just realized that the last part of my statement really isn't correct, as when selecting text the top menu disappears so you can select that text. I'll use the excuse that it is way past my bed time Last edited by jiminrussell; 04-26-2013 at 12:49 AM. |
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04-26-2013, 12:35 AM | #221 |
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It's difficult to decide from pictures if I should consider the Aura. One Dutch store has it on order, but true to their normal pricing scheme, the thing is 35 euros more than it would be in Germany. They do send it without shipment cost, however, and I could return it under Dutch law, if I don't like it.
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You can simply rename an epub on the drive to use ".kepub.epub" as the extension and it will be treated as a kepub. But without the ids, if you reopen book, it will always open to the start of the chapter. Calibre doesn't handle kepubs at all. But, there is an extra driver that generates them when you send the book to the device. It adds the ids into the book and does the renaming. It seems to work well. One other thing is that Kobo have explicitly stated that they do not support this. It seems to work well, but there may be function in kepubs that is missing by doing it this way. |
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I think underlying suggestion is that how to get the proper spacing in a kepub probably deserves it's own thread. I know that when I want to find this information I certainly won't look in the "Kobo Rocks" thread. Maybe a mod could separate the two topics and give it a dedicated thread title so people won't think they've come into the wrong thread.
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