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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I don't quite understand why you are complaining when Amazon adds purely optional new features. It is not like you have to use them. But then if they don't add what you think everybody wants, you complain as well. Just be glad you have a Kobo that does everything better for you. And epub, which is your holy grail.
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It isn't Jon's holy grail, it's just The Holy Grail.
No wonder King Arthur's knights never really found it.
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Originally Posted by shamanNS
Because it's a waste of programming hours which should be used for fixing various bugs (like the one where first element in NCX ToC can't be with sublevels, that is it doesn't get parsed and displayed correctly in Go To menu, or couple of font related bugs) and implementing features that people are asking for years (cover-as-sceensaver, custom fonts, auto generated collections based on author/series/etc metadata) and that would have real life use for much bigger number of people then this Word Runner gimmick.
Or God forbid updating the code for Personal Documents Archive to support KF8.
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The fact that Amazon prioritizes features which you, specifically, (and I, specifically,) do not value, does not mean that less people are interested in those features.
Custom fonts are a matter of quality control, and I believe Amazon moved the collections database into the hidden OS partition after fools broke their database by misusing the tools posted here on MobileRead.
P.S. The PDOC Archive does, in fact, support KF8.
The same way KDP and the BPH ftp uploads support KF8 -- by uploading a dual-MOBI for compatibility with both old and new devices.
That being said, you will get hit by a cover bug on the KF8 portion of the file...
But given the number of fools that convert EPUB ==> old MOBI to read on their Kindle Paperwhite, or heaven forbid convert AZW3 ==> MOBI
I cannot see why that should be a priority for them.