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Old 09-15-2010, 01:21 PM   #7
Jonimeesermann
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Device: Nokia e71, Ipod Touch, Sony PRS 300
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
It is definitely serif.

One word of caution that I found out using my 300 and 900 with extra fonts. You can of course rename a non-DRMed ePub to name.zip, extract it, modify the files, rezip it, then rename it back to name.epub. But in some cases the Sony reader will not read these modified books. I'm not sure why and not all are unreadable, but some will generate errors and Sony Readers will puke.
Maybe somehow the mimetype file get compressed when you rezip it? Because mimetype should not be compressed in epub file.

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To avoid this problem I would copy the epub and rename it to name.zip, extract it, and view the CSS file. But rather than modifying the copy I would use calibre to add the original epub book, edit the metadata if necessary, then convert it and add the CSS changes (overrides) during conversion. Sony Readers did not puke on these like they did the hand modified books.
While your method works, you could eliminate unnecessary step (re-convert with calibre and rename to zip) using 7zip (or any other zip tools) to open and extract it. Then you can modify css as you like, and after that just drag and drop only css file to the epub file (which is still opened by 7zip).

And you do not need to rename it to zip, just set epub file association with your zip program and it will be opened just like any other zip file.
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