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Originally Posted by robko
There are others with Sigil etc. experience that could answer this more accurately than I, but from what I remember there were a subset of epubs where the publisher set the spacing for X and the Kobo didn't override it. If it had no explicit setting it would let you change it. A newer firmware now allows it to override the settings on most (but not quite all) epubs even if the publisher has set it explicitly. That's why I would be surprised if the Aura didn't allow you to change this on sideloads. Kobo took a lot of grief on it the 1st time around, I don't think they'll regress on it.
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The Kindle does some of that stuff the same way as far as I can see. You can only set fonts if there is no "font-family" set in CSS. Otherwise the Kindle will try to display a font that is in "font-family", and if there is none, it'll display Caecilia, whatever you choose.
I'm not 100% sure though; I'd need to test it. However, on the epubs that I have had problems with (after conversion to AZW), removing "font-family" from CSS fixed that. Nowadays, I just run every book through "Modify EPUB" first to get rid of some stuff such as custom fonts and metadata, set the metadata in Calibre, and then export a new version for backup and storage.