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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
So, apparently, it looks fine on a Kindle (haven't yet loaded it onto my Kindle paperwhite), but does NOT look OK in calibre.
That's the story - and I would like to extend my apologies for the formatter of Warwolf for my earlier comments.
Don
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As I read on a Sony, I converted the books to epub. I always touch up ebook layout before reading (I'm a professional, being annoyed with bad layout is an occupational hazard, fortunately I can do something about it. Last week I actually bought my first ebook ever in which I didn't have to correct anything). I inspected the original mobi, and the reason for the ragged indents is that they were done with spaces in the text, not styling. That is simpy not how you do it in html, even though they looked even in Kindle PC (still way too large, though). Furthermore, in the three other books line-height is set to 175%, which is absolutely ridiculous and seriously mars the reading experience at default values. So, I'd say you were somewhat justified in your original complaints
I was surprised to see that the xhtml was otherwise relatively clean, so fixing it was mainly a question of styling. I have seen much worse, such as books based on html from word which contained nested-span horrors in their murky depths whose mere memory may still make me wake up screaming on a moonless night...
Edit: Oh, and thanks a lot to orange! (what
is the proper way to handle punctuation in usernames anyway?) for advising about these books, they are in my ever-growing TBR list.