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Originally Posted by franklekens
Here's a weird thing. I have a sample version of the first chapters of A Game of Thrones, and a bought copy of the full text. On the Kindle Keyboard, these have the same font size. But on the Kindle Touch, the font size of the sample is noticeably larger than that of the full book.
Unfortunately, I like the sample's font size, and like the full book's font size rather less. And there's no way to adjust it to the exact size of the sample.
In fact, my first impressions of the Kindle Touch that that's often the case with the font: for books that I have on both devices, the font size on the Kindle Touch is slightly different and always either a tiny bit too small or too large to my taste, compared to my preferred font size on the Kindle Keyboard.
No doubt this is partly because I've grown used to the Kindle Keyboard font size over time.
But I don't understand that weird difference between the sample and the full e-book of Game of Thrones. Is this a know issue with the KT?
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This is just an educated guess, but...
It's probably because of the Kindle Touch using a different "version" of the book. Most books seem to be made available in KF8 format now, which the K4 and K5 (Touch) can display, but the K3 can't. So the K3 uses the "old" format, while the K5 uses the "new" one. You're in fact reading two different books, which are formatted differently. (And the sample would be "non-KF8", thus displaying the same on both devices).
Edit: A workaround seems to be to use calibre to "convert" the book from mobi to mobi. This results in an "old-style" mobi book, which would look the same on the K3 and K5. See
this post and the follow-up discussion for a related (but not identical) problem.