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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Have you heard of a single problem with a KF8 book that's been downloaded by a Touch user from Amazon? Seems to me you're looking for a problem that so far hasn't shown itself. Yes there appear to be a few problems with some KF8 stuff output by Calibre, but Calibre's support for the format is very young and still being developed is it not?
EDIT: I see from another thread you're talking about 'Kim' conversions that aren't working. It does indeed seem that the Touch isn't reading that correctly from either Calibre or KindleGen.
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Umm, actually yes, I have had such problems:
Wool Omnibus Edition
It looks fine on my Fire but on Kindle Touch the text size is about 4 sizes too small. Download a sample to see. A disaster.
Another case study is Umberto Eco's
Prague Cemetery (which is priced 81% below the paperback edition BTW). The font sizes for titles (meaning h1/h2... tags) are much different between KF and KT (KT's are too small). On KF, you can only change the typeface of the titles, and the typeface of the text alternates between serif and sans serif (the latter used for quotations). On KT, typeface selection affects everything, and there's no alternation of typeface. The latter result makes it difficult to identify the quoted text as quoted text (in mobi it would have had an indent via quote tag; I think the designer in this case would have done better to use some means other than typeface to signal this, but still: it sort of works on KF, but not on KT).
It seems KT's line spacing is a bit bigger than KF's with the 'same' setting, as well. 'medium' looks a little too large on KT.
These are virtually the only KF8 books I've tried on KT so far. They both have some issues. So yes, I have some concern about the KT implementation of KF8.
I would like to do more experimentation with my own KF8 creations. Perhaps the above were created with pre-release, buggy versions of kindlegen. But even if that's the case it would not account for the differences seen.
Also while media tags can be used to distinguish between CSS for mobi vs kf8, I don't think they can distinguish between two KF8 implementations (nor should they be able to: KF8 CSS should be 'the same' for all KF8 features the implementations have in common).
[Update:] As it happens, I've downloaded a couple more KF8 files, and these have been fine on both devices. I'm getting used to the slightly larger leading on KT.