Touch Unhappy with font sizes available for NST

[sneakyspider]

I'm unhappy with the fonts sizes for the Nook Simple Touch. They go directly from too small, to way too large, with nothing in between. I was wondering if there was any (not too difficult) way to add more font sizes onto the device? I'm afraid I'm not too tech savvy with some things, so if it is very complex than I might not be able to do it.

[afv011]

You can embed fonts in the ePub. See here.

[MartyTX]

Originally Posted by sneakyspider

I'm unhappy with the fonts sizes for the Nook Simple Touch. They go directly from too small, to way too large, with nothing in between. I was wondering if there was any (not too difficult) way to add more font sizes onto the device? I'm afraid I'm not too tech savvy with some things, so if it is very complex than I might not be able to do it.

Hi sneakyspider,

Just checking ... the NST has 7 different font sizes that smoothly increase from very small to very large. Are you able to access all 7 sizes on your NST?

Marty

[Asawi]

Originally Posted by MartyTX

Hi sneakyspider,

Just checking ... the NST has 7 different font sizes that smoothly increase from very small to very large. Are you able to access all 7 sizes on your NST?

Marty

And to add to that: The different fonts also give slightly differently sized text, so you can also fiddle around with that setting.

[afv011]

Some ePubs have embedded fonts and the nook menus don't let you change sizes in those ePubs, could that be the problem?

Whenever I have an ePub like that, I open it up in Calibre (explode) and remove all fonts and references to them.

[livramax]

Originally Posted by sneakyspider

I'm unhappy with the fonts sizes for the Nook Simple Touch. They go directly from too small, to way too large, with nothing in between. I was wondering if there was any (not too difficult) way to add more font sizes onto the device? I'm afraid I'm not too tech savvy with some things, so if it is very complex than I might not be able to do it.

I too found the choice of available font sizes to be coarse. However the limitation lies not with the NST per se but with its stock eReader. I no longer have this problem after I rooted my NST and switched to using the Mantano eReader instead: not only does this eReader provide finer-grained choice in font sizes but one can just swipe a finger vertically up or down to switch font size. Also, I can read ebooks/epubs in my native language (which uses latin alphabets with accent/diacritical marks) without messing around with embedding fonts.

[bfollowell]

Originally Posted by afv011

Some ePubs have embedded fonts and the nook menus don't let you change sizes in those ePubs, could that be the problem?

Whenever I have an ePub like that, I open it up in Calibre (explode) and remove all fonts and references to them.

Are you 100% certain of that? The only reason I'm asking is that on my Nook HD+ I thought I had the same problem until I experimented a little bit. If I have Publisher Defaults on, which I usually prefer, I see the embedded fonts and margins and anything else that's setup in the epub. All of the text size options are grayed out. However, if I turn Publisher Defaults off, I can then set the text size to whatever I want. Then I just go turn the Publisher Defaults back on and my text size option stays.

I realize that an NST is nothing like an HD+ but I thought it may have similar options in this regard. It's worth looking into anyway. I hope this helps in some way.

- Byron

[afv011]

Originally Posted by bfollowell

Are you 100% certain of that?

Yes, at least on the nook touch, with the original software, I haven't had to do that for a while now. The publisher defaults would make no different on those ePubs.

[bfollowell]

Well, it was worth a shot.

[sneakyspider]

I have played around with all of the sizes and font types so far, but none of them have been what I'm looking for. Right now I am trying to play with the font size of the e-books themselves, but it has been slow going because I have a large collection. So I'll have to wait until those are finished before seeing if this fixes my problem.

Update: It's going to be a long while until they're all converted, but I put one of the e-books which I edited to make the font size smaller, and it seems to have worked exactly as I wanted it to - the font is just the right size for me now. I wish I had been able to do something to the device itself, but this works just as well.