Thread: mobi vs azw3
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Old 06-27-2014, 07:19 AM   #3
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Device: Kindle3
Thanks theducks - I tried azw3 conversions of some of the books which I converted to mobi over the last 3-4 years.

In mobi all the books show 29 lines on my Kindle 3, and all of them when converted to azw3 (using almost the same conversion setting as for mobi) have only 25 lines... This is when the Publisher Font is NOT selected. The default font is good in both cases - mobi or azw3. The number of the characters per line in azw3 is the same, so perhaps the characters are slightly bigger and also spaces between the lines would be slightly larger, so the result is 4 lines less - which I hate.

When I choose to embed some font family when converting, and DO select the Publisher Font on my Kindle 3, I always get something I don't like on the screen - ugly thin characters, possibly more than 25 lines but ugly. I tried many fonts, Lucida Bright was slightly better than others but still nothing like the default font when using the old mobi or when the Publisher Font is not selected...

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