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Old 05-15-2017, 08:03 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DuckFOO View Post
I don't have an eInk Kindle and I am trying to decide on getting one (as my eyes are starting to be bothered by backlit displays).

I have a lot of simple .html files I want to add to the device. My understanding is that if I were to use Kindlegen to convert those .html files to .mobi, I would get idented paragraphs. I was curious if it is the same for .html files renamed to .txt.
If you just convert a plain HTML file to mobi, without styling, you get non-indented, spaced-out paragraphs. This was a terrible choice on Amazon's part: there's a reason printed books aren't typeset like that.

You can fix it by fiddling with CSS text-indent and (IIRC, it's been a while) padding.
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