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Originally Posted by darryl
If you are able to jailbreak it the fonts hack will let you install a font and substitute it. I used it for a while but found every firmware update was breaking it and I had to reinstall the font hack each time to keep it working. When my Voyage was broken (my fault) and I replaced it with an Oasis I didn't bother jail breaking it. I suppose it's a matter of how important it is to you.
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I'd echo this as a fair summary of the situation. Please also note that I've just recently jailbroken my Voyage before updating the firmware to 5.8.5. KUAL and the screensaver hack seem to work fine on 5.8.5, but I couldn't get the font hack to work at all. Whether this is a temporary thing occasioned by a new firmware, I don't know, but it seems likely.
I do have to say that I personally don't feel very comfortable with the overwriting approach, anyway - you may feel differently, of course! Back when I last had a jailbroken Kindle, it was possible to display and select the other fonts you'd installed via the hack in the Kindle's menu, which I vastly preferred. Obviously, doing that has since been made impossible by newer firmwares, and your only option on later firmwares is to overwrite an existing font.
Out of interest, Harry, is there any performance issue from having a lot of books with embedded fonts on a Kindle? I use a Voyage, and I have approx. 660 books, none of which have embedded fonts at the moment. I've just tested a book with an embedded font (ChareInk), and obviously the file size is larger, but performance on the device seems otherwise fine. I'd like to do this for my entire library, but I'd rather not if it's going to adversely affect my Kindle/make it sluggish, though. Any tips greatly appreciated!
