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Originally Posted by John C
.. You can't even access the kindle file unless you have a kindle device so those two books are stuck on Amizon and I can't read them on my new ereader.
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not so, all you have to do is go via Kindle for PC / Kindle for Mac . Install that and register it to the amazon account that you used for buying the books originally. then
amazon -> kindle for PC -> calibre -> kobo
easy peasy
PS. your decision as to whether to use everything "AS IS ", but from a testing perspective, you were adding two separate things then deciding that one of them was messing up. the logical next step is to add only one of the two things & test that. then remove it add the other one....
if you could confirm the format & the purchase source of the books that messed up, that may help me & others to not give irrelevent/ misleading advice. I was assuming that you had epub format purchased NOT from Kobo, but maybe that was false, as you now refer to 2 books bought from amazon ?
margins: the specific patch that I used for epub on Kobo ( not Kepub) involves creating a small text file and writing it to root directory of the device. it is well explained in other threads but may be buried inside a very long one ( as is often the case with kobo "gems" ) you create a text file called kobo_extra.css with just one line:
@page {margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0:}
and choose the numbers therein by trial and error until you like the effect
you can optionally have other stuff in that file e.g. I disable widows, orphans, hyphenation with:
@page {margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0:}
body { orphans: 1; widows: 1; }
body {adobe-hyphenate: none;}
you must use the exact file name and place the file in the root of your device for it to work.
I can upload my file but I'd have to zip it for the board to accept it, so probably faster for you to just type it from scratch