I have a certain document with a few tables one after another. Each table is in its own subsubsection. The peculiar thing about these tables is that two tables can fit on a page with a subsubsection title, but only one can fit with the section, subsection and subsubsection. With just one table:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsubsection*{Table 1}
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\scalebox{0.65}{
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}
\caption{Table 1 Caption}
\end{table}
\end{document}
I get a perfectly fine output:

However, as soon as I have multiple tables:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsubsection*{Table 1}
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\scalebox{0.65}{
\begin{tabular}{|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|}
\hline
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\end{tabular}
}
\caption{Table 1 Caption}
\end{table}
\subsubsection*{Table 2}
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\scalebox{0.65}{
\begin{tabular}{|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|}
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\end{tabular}
}
\caption{Table 2 Caption}
\end{table}
\subsubsection*{Table 3}
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\scalebox{0.65}{
\begin{tabular}{|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|m{1cm}|}
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\end{tabular}
}
\caption{Table 3 Caption}
\end{table}
\end{document}
The pages look like this:

I want the first page to stay exactly the same way as it was before. I found one solution, i.e. adding a '\clearpage' just after the first '\end{table}', which gives me:

However, this solution is not elegant enough for me, since it involves doing something specifically for the first table, whereas the tables are, in all other ways, equivalent.
Is there a solution which automatically adjusts(forces) the tables to stay on top of the page and not 'gravitate' towards its following tables?
I already tried \vfill{} and \vspace{\fill} with no success!
\raggedbottomto ignore the fact that the page is "short". – barbara beeton Jul 07 '14 at 18:19floatpackage to manage the appearance of floats and their captions? – Mico Jul 07 '14 at 18:20bookclass from vertically justifying the contents? – Werner Jul 07 '14 at 18:21