[Kavita] Offset double page spreads

[morning-paradigm]

Idea Description

Just copypasting from #1685 since the OP didn't want to do what they were asked to:

As already discussed on discord, many scanlated chapters do not have a cover image and start directly at the first page. Mangadex's webreader gives an option to start the chapter at either page01 or page 01+page02 by having the option "offset double page spreads".

Komga and Cdisplayex have also the options to toggle the display mode to either with or no cover.

This allows chapters without a cover image to display properly in double page mode.

To add a little bit more context, manga chapters are designed with a white space in the middle, so that they can be bound to volumes. As is now, if a chapter does no have a cover image, it is being displayed incorrectly like so in Kavita:

https://i.imgur.com/7ivMbZE.png

And this is how the pages would be properly displayed, as intended:

https://i.imgur.com/0dbGwK7.png

Tbh I also think it's more of an issue rather than a feature request.
It's especially annoying coupled with the bug (#2494, #2478) where some pages would occasionally not load at all causing the entire volume's pages to be misaligned. Btw, this bug is not iOS specific, I get it quite often in the web version, although I don't know how to reproduce it.

Duration of Using Kavita

About a year

Idea Category

User Experience

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