If you’ve read any of my reviews for Kobo eReaders lately, the Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Aura HD, you’ll notice that I complain a lot about how Kobo chooses to format ebooks.
Calibre is free software for Windows, macOS. The 7-inch screen is an inch bigger than that of the Kobo Clara HD or the Kindle Paperwhite (but the same as the Oasis), and it has the same 300. Kobo Clara HD is the perfect reading companion for any book lover. 6 high definition Carta E Ink touchscreen delivers a print-quality reading experience Comfort Light PRO provides the best light no matter the time of day, gradually reducing blue-light exposure for more comfortable nighttime reading Store up to 6, 000 eBooks with 8GB of memory Get weeks of battery life on a single charge. Jun 17, 2013 I tried out this conversion in Calibre for my Onyx Boox i62HD since the.pdf reader does not allow the margins to be removed from.epub files and the display result is the same as on the Kobo and I got a similar result to what Nathan achieved with his Kobo Aura.
My main issue is with all the wasted space. Kobo insists on adding a huge bar at the bottom of a page to display page numbers, and another huge bar at the top of the screen to display the title (seriously Kobo, like I can’t figure out what book I’m reading that I need to be reminded on every single freaking page).
There’s also the fact most Kobo ebooks have spaces between paragraphs instead of indented paragraphs, which wastes even more space. Personally I just want my ebooks to look as close as possible to the paper books I’ve been reading my whole life, which means indented paragraphs and justified text.
- The Kobo doesn't need any additional files installed on it for you to use Calibre. Calibre is just a way to manage your library. I'd go so far as to say the best way to manage your library, but I've never tried not using Calibre, so that isn't a particularly well researched opinion.
- Ik heb Calibre gedownload en mijn boeken hierin geladen in de hoop de gegevens aan te passen waarmee de boeken worden weergeven in mijn Kobo Clara. Echter lijkt er niets te zijn veranderd (als in: veel van mijn via internet gedownloade ebooks staan er zonder auteur of titel in en dit wil ik graag organiseren).
And don’t get me started on how much I hate the long paragraph bug that makes it so there’s even more wasted space at the bottom of the page for certain books and fonts.
The irony is that Kobo’s ereaders offer more layout and font adjusting options than any other brand, but when it comes right down to it there are too many limitations and variables to make good use of the settings. In fact I can’t think of an ebook reader or app that annoys me more than Kobo’s software.
Luckily, there’s a great free ebook tool called Calibre that you can use to re-format your ebooks to have more control over formatting. With the proper settings you can easily minimize wasted space and remove spaces between paragraphs. You can even get rid of the entire big bar of wasted space at the top of the screen (unless you are running firmware version 2.5.2).
Kobo Formatting Tip: Minimizing Wasted Space
Awhile back a reader named Evenft left a comment about what settings to use with Calibre to minimize wasted space. Here’s the procedure below, and here’s the link to some pictures showing the settings in Calibre if you need a visual.
You can use Calibre’s conversion feature to change the CSS settings in an ebook. If you are converting regular DRM-free ePubs all you have to do is import them and follow the directions below. If you want to convert purchased ebooks from Kobo you’ll have to login to your account and download the copies first, which requires using Adobe Digital Editions, and then import them into Calibre to convert them. You can also easily remove the DRM if you choose to make it so you can read your ebooks on other ereaders and apps.
– After importing the ebooks into Calibre, select the ones you want to modify and choose “Convert books”.
– Make sure the output format is ePub.
Kobo Clara Calibre 7
Kobo Clara Calibre 4
– 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.
Calibre Kobo Plugin
– There’s also the option to remove existing CSS properties for fonts, margins, and padding under “Filter Style Information”.
Kobo Clara Calibre 2
– You can choose to set default line spacing to 0% and margins to 0 pt as well.
Kobo Clara Calibre
Some of these settings aren’t needed depending on how the ebook is originally formatted. The two most important things are adding the extra code in the CSS box and checking to remove spaces between paragraphs.