Please allow smooth scrolling flow through chapter breaks

[Andy Martinez]

In the ebook viewer I want to simply scroll through all the text, generally with the mouse wheel. Almost all my books are .EPUB format.

I've found the settings to allow scrolling within a chapter, but I still get full-screen jumps at chapter breaks. Because I never know in advance where a chapter will end, I'm constantly overshooting into the next chapter and have to back up.

SO: Please allow smooth flow scrolling including from chapter to chapter.

In other words, minimal break... maybe a couple of lines of white space. The different font used for chapters is plenty of indication that I'm in a new one.

Thanks for a great app.

[theducks]

I don't believe that is possible as chapters are commonly another file that has to be loaded and rendered.

Instead of scroll wheel, try using the spacebar (text must have focus). That steps a screen full (a couple of previous lines are still showing)

[Andy Martinez]

But I want to scroll, not page.

And the fact that a new file has to be opened should, AFAIK, not affect where on the screen that data is painted. There could be a slight delay but that's fine.

Basically, when I'm scrolling, I don't want the book to suddenly jump a page. It's that simple.

When I scroll back a little to recover, I always overshoot and have to approach the end of the chapter again, more cautiously.

So every chapter end is a minor hassle.

SO - I still request the option to have no break between chapters when scrolling. Putting the new chapter heading in bold and colored text is fine, as is done now; just don't lose my place.

[Not using bold to yell, just to create s TL;DR]

Thanks

[beaLollina]

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[beaLollina]

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[Andy Martinez]

Originally Posted by beaLollina

it's kind of maddening sometimes when you are absorbed in reading.

Exactly; and thanks for chiming in.

I read almost everything on the computer the same way: via smooth mouse-wheel scrolling, so I can sit back and don't have to keep my hands up on the keyboard.

The Calibre e-book reader is wonderful EXCEPT that when used like this it will jump a page at every chapter end; and I have to scroll back and try again.

[beaLollina]

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[Andy Martinez]

I think you mean "Paged Mode" in "Settings | Page Layout".

What you say is true, but just flips pages under mouse control. I want "one long scrolling page as in a web browser" which is the exact description of "Settings | Flow mode".

In the latter mode, regardless of other settings e.g. in "Scrolling Behavior", the scrolling jumps a page at every chapter end. So... not like a web browser.

[DNSB]

When I switch to new file in a web browser, the same behaviour. Generally in an epub, the chapters are in individual files. What I saw in my testing was last page in a chapter did not take up the full display area and the next chapter started at the top of the page once my next scroll happened. I did not lose any text at the end of a chapter. If you really feel enthused, you could merge all the xhtml files in an epub into a single file though that is likely to break many ereaders.

I've attached an image from calibre's ebook viewer on a test file where I combined all the xhtml files into a single file and the file itself.

[beaLollina]

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[Andy Martinez]

There are lots of possibilities, but I don't want to lose my original request so will restate it:

I want "one long scrolling page as in a web browser" which is the exact description of "Settings | Flow mode". I use the mouse wheel to keep hands off the keyboard.

But currently, the book jumps a page at every chapter break which can't be foreseen, and recovery via the mouse wheel is touchy.

SO - I still request the option to have no break between chapters when scrolling.

[theducks]

Do not double post (Repeating the same topic). This is a MR rule

The fact that Kovid did not reply speaks volumes.


You either need to change from a using scroll wheel, where over scrolling calls next section.

OR

Edit the Book and Merge files (and remove page-break commands)

[nqk]

Originally Posted by Andy Martinez

Because I never know in advance where a chapter will end

You can try adding the following css to the Extra CSS box, you will see the text 'end of chapter' at the end of every 'chapter'.


body:after {
content: 'end of chapter';
display: block;
margin: 4rem auto 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}

[beaLollina]

Originally Posted by nqk

You can try adding the following css to the Extra CSS box, you will see the text 'end of chapter' at the end of every 'chapter'.


body:after {
content: 'end of chapter';
display: block;
margin: 4rem auto 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}

Hi. Can I add some blank space? A lot of wide space before that text "end of chapter"

[nqk]

Originally Posted by beaLollina

Hi. Can I add some blank space? A lot of wide space before that text "end of chapter"

That's the margin-top value. Change it to your liking, 0, if you want no space.

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