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Originally Posted by Psymon
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To summarize...
- In all three Kindle Fire tabs, everything seems just "perfect"! I haven't gone over it all with a fine-tooth comb, but as far as I can see everything is just fine, no problems that I can "see".
- In Kindle Paperwhite, things seem surprisingly just fine, too. Obviously the embedded fonts don't work, but even still that "olde" part seems to work out okay. The only real issue that I see is where I'd used two embedded ornaments, which now show up as letters instead, but I think that could be resolved by going into Font Forge and putting those ornaments that I wanted to use into different slots. For example, I'd used a nice, fancy ornament underneath my chapter headings, and right now that ends up coming out as the letter "d" -- but I could put that in the slot for the em-dash (or something) instead and then it wouldn't look so bad. Well, better, at least. 
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Yes, in Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Touch, Kindle 4 No Touch and Kindle 3, your ebook should display very well (that is, because all those models support the .kf8 format). And Kindle Paperwhite should show the fonts you embedded. Something must be wrong with the procedure to do that (the custom fonts you are using, are they being employed in the SVG images?). Also you should see the ornaments in Kindle Paperwhite; again something should be bad with the used code.
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- in KindleDX, none of my full-page images show up -- but I suppose those people simply won't know what they're missing (and I can only presume are used to stuff being "missing" anyway). The only real issue that I see with other images are the images I'd used as dropcaps, which don't resize down to a reasonable size and are HUGE (comparatively)... but once again, I would assume that people on that platform are used to things often looking "funny" in that sort of way?
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That is because KindleDX doesn't support the .kf8 format; in this device is very few what you can do. And KDX also doesn't support float images (and you must indicate the size of the images in pixels).
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I realize that it would be nice to have things degrade gracefully for certain platforms (or older devices), but to what extent do we sacrifice all the nice things we can do with more modern devices just to accommodate those older devices -- especially considering that people using those must surely be used to seeing lots of "crap"?
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Yes, you can do that by using "media queries". It will take you a bit of work but you can achieve that things degrade gracefully. All styles you want to be used by modern Kindle devices, you must enclosed them between:
@media amzn-kf8 {
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Here must be all styles for kf8.
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}
And styles you want to be used by old Kindle devices must be enclosed between:
@media amzn-mobi {
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Here must be all styles for mobi.
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}
You can see an example of the use of media queries in this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...66&postcount=6
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So I don't know -- as usual. With that first book of mine, that people kept saying over and over and over again that it "Will never work in Kindle", at least as far as viewing it in Kindle Previewer goes it seems to work out either perfectly (as far as I can see) or at least reasonably, forgivably okay (oh, and also in Kindle for PC it's virtually "perfect").
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Your ebook will work almost perfectly (with some adjustments proper for that kind of devices will work perfectly) in modern Kindle devices. Problems appear when you want to adapt the book for older devices
There, you can't have all the things you can have in the .kf8 format. But with media queries you can make the book perfectly readable for both types of devices
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So now what? I haven't tried out my second book yet -- where I was using that background image for each/every chapter, and I presume from what people have been saying that aspect of it will just fall apart (in some Kindles, anyway) -- but as far as my first book goes, with it having seemed to come out just fine, really (with a couple of small, easy fixes in Font Forge), am I missing something?
I know this is off-topic from the original thread here -- let alone the book that I was talking about for that issue -- but if my first book seems to work fine, what's to prevent me from just going ahead and getting an account with Amazon and loading 'er up there (i.e. this mobi file that KindleGen made)?
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Before loading the book in Amazon be sure that the book is well readable for the mobi format (Kindle DX in Kindle Prewiever).