Troubleshooting Text in bold all the time.

jocampo · 06-30-2011, 05:52 PM

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen since I started using the Kindle. Bought this book on Amazon ...

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Database...9470434&sr=1-3

... the fonts are always in bold mode. I though was my Kindle but looks the same on iPad. Here is the weird part: playing around with font size, like bigger or smaller, fixed the problem. But after a few pages, the font is bold again. I also noticed that when I press on any word, iPad of course, a Chinese word appears instead of the meaning of the word.

Has someone seen something like this before? Not sure if return the book, complain or what, because is a nice book, but the bold bothers me a bit.

susan_cassidy · 06-30-2011, 06:31 PM

Sounds like a formatting problem. You could strip the DRM, convert to HTML, fix the formatting, and convert back to Kindle format. Or, return the book for a refund, while complaining about the formatting.

jocampo · 06-30-2011, 06:37 PM

Just got off the phone with Amazon customer support. LOVE AMAZON ;-)

She followed the same exercise with me and basically confirmed what I said. It is clearly a formatting problem so they gave me my money back but promised to check with publisher and let me know.

06-30-2011, 05:52 PM	#1
jocampo Layback feline Posts: 3,034 Karma: 6980745 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Oasis 2nd gen, Sony DPTS1, iPad Pro 10.5"	Text in bold all the time. This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen since I started using the Kindle. Bought this book on Amazon ... http://www.amazon.com/Build-Database...9470434&sr=1-3 ... the fonts are always in bold mode. I though was my Kindle but looks the same on iPad. Here is the weird part: playing around with font size, like bigger or smaller, fixed the problem. But after a few pages, the font is bold again. I also noticed that when I press on any word, iPad of course, a Chinese word appears instead of the meaning of the word. Has someone seen something like this before? Not sure if return the book, complain or what, because is a nice book, but the bold bothers me a bit.

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06-30-2011, 06:31 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Sounds like a formatting problem. You could strip the DRM, convert to HTML, fix the formatting, and convert back to Kindle format. Or, return the book for a refund, while complaining about the formatting.

06-30-2011, 06:37 PM	#3
jocampo Layback feline Posts: 3,034 Karma: 6980745 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Oasis 2nd gen, Sony DPTS1, iPad Pro 10.5"	Just got off the phone with Amazon customer support. LOVE AMAZON ;-) She followed the same exercise with me and basically confirmed what I said. It is clearly a formatting problem so they gave me my money back but promised to check with publisher and let me know.

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