[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by dgatwood

Indeed. Lots of things the Kindle KF8 readers do are obnoxious. That particular one, though, is so badly done that fonts whose metrics specify a smaller-than-1.2 line height actually get forced up to a 1.2 line height, resulting in the layout of the content changing. To get a line height less than 1.2, AFAIK, the only thing you can really do is lie in your metrics and extend the ascenders and descenders past the specified limits.

So yes, no disagreement here. What Amazon has done with KF8 is broken. Badly. Embarrassingly.

So what else is broken with KF8 besides the line height?