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wallcraft · 03-24-2012, 03:04 AM

If your existing Kindle is a Kindle 3 or 4, then have you tried changing the font to one that is very bold? See Calibre - GUI Plugin - Kindle Collections for one way to do this. Copying the Bold font face into the Regular font file may be all that is needed. A bold font is very black on an EInk device, and there are color filters that go over the screen that might help with the white/grey background.

Even without changing the font, Calibre can convert most DRM-free ebooks to use bold in place of regular text. This should work on almost any reading device. Under Preferences -> Conversion -> Common Options, add the following to Extra CSS:

Code:

body {
    font-family: sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
}

You can replace sans-serif with serif if you prefer. Then (for the Kindle) do a MOBI to MOBI conversion and the new ebook will display with the bold font.

03-24-2012, 03:04 AM	#8
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	If your existing Kindle is a Kindle 3 or 4, then have you tried changing the font to one that is very bold? See Calibre - GUI Plugin - Kindle Collections for one way to do this. Copying the Bold font face into the Regular font file may be all that is needed. A bold font is very black on an EInk device, and there are color filters that go over the screen that might help with the white/grey background. Even without changing the font, Calibre can convert most DRM-free ebooks to use bold in place of regular text. This should work on almost any reading device. Under Preferences -> Conversion -> Common Options, add the following to Extra CSS: Code: body { font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; } You can replace sans-serif with serif if you prefer. Then (for the Kindle) do a MOBI to MOBI conversion and the new ebook will display with the bold font.