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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I suggest that a better alternative would be to use an app which honours the publisher's CSS.
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If I could find something that runs on my old phone. I am am looking for better hardware, but I have zero budget for what is just a hobby, and am not in the US so most Ebay, etc deals aren't viable.
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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I've designed the occasional ebook myself, for a small press in the UK and for the MobileRead forum. It's hard to express how irritating it is to design an ebook and make sure it validates, and then get complaints that it doesn't work because the complainant uses an app which sets its own idiosyncratic rules.
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I also produce ebooks for real publishers. It doesn't matter how correct your book is coded and designed if it doesn't look good on every Kindle. You have to make it work, no matter how dumb the code looks. (Margins are a bugbear on Kindle as well.) I proof these on the emulator on PC, don't have any actual Kindles.
Anyway, I gave up trying to make margins work on FB and just inserted <br/> at the head of all the paras that should have space above. Can remove them easily if I find a better reader.
But I am very surprised this is an issue, FB has been around for 10 years and is updated regularly. To find it just ignores basic CSS was a shock. I wasted hours trying to find what was wrong with my coding when it was the reader that's at fault.