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Originally Posted by caleb72
This remains a little off-topic and I ask for interest sake, but does the latest Kindle format address some of these concerns?
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KF8 is supposed to bring Kindles up to speed with the basic display capabilities that ePub has had since 2009, and a commenter for the illustrated Three Men in a Boat e-book that I linked above says that it seems to convert and work very nicely with most of the nifty features (though no embedded fonts) into KF8 on his/her Kindle Fire.
I'd suggest testing ePubs with known advanced formatting by dragging them onto the new version of Kindle Previewer if you're running Windows or a fairly recent upgraded Intel Mac (
download page with Amazon's own mini-blurbs about the changes, although it's very scanty and mostly implied via screenshots rather than giving solid details), which will auto-convert and display them in the new format so you can see how they look.
I do remain a bit concerned about included image quality, since the release notes for the new KindleGen have a bit about "improved image quality for comics and children's books", which seems to imply that they're still downgrading the originals in some way upon conversion to KF8.
Mind you, if you have an older model of Kindle you may be out of luck as far as the enhancements go, as AFAIK Amazon are only planning to upgrade the firmware to support it for the most recent generation of Kindles, which likely means just K4/Touch and above.