[cybmole]

I saw that the google store app had been updated - 6th aug- so I sideloaded ithe apkto my Kindle fire HD
disaster! - whatever they have done to line spacing - the spacing in my books is now beign ignored and text is all squashed up.

I've had to uninstall, & sideload the previous version - lucky I kept that, but now I've had to reset my login & am having to reload all books & locate where I'd gotten to. ( I had to completely uninstall because the older version would not install over the newer version.)

I dunno if they have screwed this up for all android tablets ?

NB there is no explicit line spacing control in the app, but my previous experience was that so long as I removed explicit line heights from each book, then line spacing would scale naturally with font size.
it did in the older version, not it does not.

not sure if this is intentional but its awful ugly, to my eyes ?

I am not wanting to put this back onto tablet to grab the version number but it is the file that is on google play as at now - 6th aug, the apk file size is 38,584KB . I have it in dropbox

I have re-installed version 5.4.12225 which is fine.

now there is an outside chance that I've I've panicked too quickly but I did look at the obvious app controls & saw no way to get my books displaying like they did before. an app upgrade should not in any case drastically change how it renders text without any forewarning, surely ?. all you get in the android app anyway is a size slider, a brightness control, and a choice of 3 fonts. ( & a tick box for "use kobo styling" - on or off - enabling that seemed to just add more space between paragraphs so I never used it - I prefer to see what the book CSS defines ))
with this latest version the books were rendering as if they contained a fixed , cramped line height which was not scaling as you adjusted font size.