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Old 10-31-2014, 09:51 AM   #23
John C
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Device: nexus 7
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
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
I have kindle for Mac and kindle for droid. With both there is no access to the book file that I can find.

I also suggested installing one plug in at a time and was hoping to see if others had more luck with the plug in.

Thanks for posting the text code to improve the margin spacing. Although as I haven't done done this I would need step by step instructionss such as the ones I posted.

I really like the h20 but think I'll be retuning it because there is no landscape mode and the top margin is too close to the top. I think kobo should fix the margin issue. Although I am very impressed with how well you can patch it. I'm still unclear on which device I can read a book I buy on. So for now just going to use my nexus asi thought the new kindle voyage would be $120. I would keep the h20 if it had landscape view. Thanks again for the help. I'm sure I'll be getting an ereader at some point.
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