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Please allow smooth scrolling flow through chapter breaks
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. |
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I don't believe that is possible as chapters are commonly another file that has to be loaded and rendered.
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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; } |
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Hi. Can I add some blank space? A lot of wide space before that text "end of chapter"
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