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Originally Posted by jhowell
I agree with what Hitch wrote.
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Naturally! It's because I'm always right. Just ask my Crew and Mr. Hitch, they'll tell you.
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There have been more than a dozen e-ink Kindle models going back to 2007, each of which has multiple firmware versions that can be running on it. There is no way that you could have done enough testing to say that the calibre conversion works on all (or even most) "old" Kindle devices.
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I would never say that WE know what works, in every instance, on every Kindle, and we do this day-in and day-out. Not only is it hard to keep track of the original specs, the upgrades (which stil happen, mind you!) make it
bloody impossible.
Just yesterday, I turned to someone in the office, trying to remember if that bug in the Voyage, about image sizes >50%, was fixed or not. I mean...we test books daily, and hell, who can keep all that stuff in their head?
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ETA: I think that you should learn to live with the fact that your exact desired formatting will not be present on every single kindle device. Even on devices where your formatting works it can be broken just by setting a very large font size.
The older kindle devices that can handle only the original MOBI format are a shrinking minority. As long as the formatting is good enough to be easily readable on those devices I don't see any compelling reason to put more effort into supporting them.
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Well, I wouldn't assume that the older eInks are all headed to the eReader Graveyard just yet. I was shocked, only a few years ago, to realize that the vast bulk of the members of the DorothyL list (at that time, and perhaps still, the largest list of mystery readers in existence) STILL had K2's. Yeah, verily. So, those DXes, that were still on sale, a mere year or so ago...I wouldn't count on those just
poofing out of existence, like Harry Potter waved his wand.
(And maybe I'm wrong--it's happened before--but I'm still pretty damn sure that that table coding, the height elements, specifically, probably will NOT work on the KF7's, and honestly, I'm
not too sure about the iOS/Droid apps,
either.)
Just my $.02.
Hitch