Portrait Orientation - Pagination / Layout Inspector "Header Height"?

OK, I started playing with iBooks Author and I've managed to create my first book, with various images and framed text boxes in the page layout. Although this was easily achieved in just a few hours, I note I spent most of the time struggling to get an acceptable Portrait page layout. In the end I gave up and just ticked the "Disable portrait orientation" checkbox, unfortunatly making the book Landscape only.
The issue is that I was wanting to define the specifc page layout and pagination in Portrait orientation, in the same way that I have done in Lanscape. Not unlike defining your Landscape / Portrait screen layout in developing an App. The iBook I have ony requires a single page / screen per section. But it appears that you cannot control the full page layout / pagination in Portrait mode, like you can in Landscape.
I found the difference in the "Layout Inspector" when switching between Landscape & Portrait to be confusing. In Portrait a new section comes up with "Header Height", which corresponds to the blue line that appears in the Portrait Book Outline. I couldn't find any help on this or any clue how I could perhaps use this Portrait Header in trying to create an equivalent single screen page layout in Portrait mode. eg. It doesn't appear possible to either remove the Header altogether, or to use the header area as a full screen sized Portrait page (with effectively no body). The main Landscape body "shared with protrait layout" text box seems to only want to position below the Header Height line.
Has anyone had a similar experience with trying to control Portrait page layout, and has found a solution? For now it looks like I'll need to stick with Landscape only.

Thanks KT, but no, I'm not forcing a wide single page layout in Landscape.
After again reviewing the sample "Life on Earth" book, I see that in Portrait orientation the whole book is effectively a continuous vertical scrolling (only) text, with pagination only occuring (being forced) between Chapters (not even between Sections). Unlike in Landscape orientation, where pagination is forced for each individually defined screen / page, and scolling is horizontal only.
Based on this, I believe my issue is that the metaphor Apple have used for Portrait Orientation is (in my view) not intuitive, nor consistent with other iPad / iBooks behaviour in Portrait orientation.
For example, if I open a regular eBook in Portrait mode, I still navigate via horizontal page-by-page scrolling. If I rotate to Landscape mode, I navigate via horizontal page-by-page scrolling. Likewise, if I open a magazine App I get horizontal page-by-page scrolling in either orientation, just the layout is rearranged. Even newspaper Apps I regularly use, which do have continuous vertical scrolling within a single article, still utilise horizontal page-by-page scrolling when moving between news articles (which I would equate to Sections).
So I think the answer is that Portrait mode is poorly implemented / effectively broken, so "Disable portrait orientation" is the unfortunate correct answer for now.

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