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JotaCe · 05-16-2017, 07:56 AM

Wow! A great master class! Really very interesting and informative, thank you for taking the time to write it down!

But I think this is going too far for me. When I started messing with all this matter of margins, I expected it would be much easier. I have just left my loved kindle 4 where I could change margins just by editing a text file accessible from windows! Ok, I accepted the challenge of learning about SSH, editing java files, etc... but I thought that those were just some tools to do more or less the same I did in my old kindle: change a value.

Now, not only is not so easy to find which value I have to edit, but I have discovered how easy is to break my device by editing the wrong one (I never expected that would be possible just by changing a value called fonts.wordsperline.default!). Ok, I was able to recover from near disaster and I was courageous enough to try to start again (more carefully this time). But I have discovered that I cannot find where the damned margins values are (for mobi, at least), and that the way to go deeper and at the same time trying to be on the safe side (the network connection and all that stuff) is too complicated, it needs too much study, too many hours of dedication for someone like me, withouth the basic knowledge. Not worth it.

I appreciate very much all your directions, but I see that this could take much more time than I am willing to dedicate to this matter. In fact, I passed that boundary long ago: when I started, I expected to solve this in matter of minutes! It is tempting, I must confess, to try to go on, because I usually take these issues as a challenge, and I like these types of challenges, it is quite rewarding when you finally succeed. But, on the other side, I recognize that spending lots of hours learning about technical details that I will soon forget (because I will not use them anymore) just for changing a margin... is too much.

Well, the good thing is that in the last days I have begun to feel not so bad with those awful default margins. I really hate them, yes, but maybe not so much as the first day, when I changed from my old K4 with 15 pt margins to the new one with 50 pt as a minimum. Now, page after page, I'm getting used to it.

I will have to live with that!

Thanks again for your patience, knc1!

05-16-2017, 07:56 AM	#113
JotaCe Member Posts: 23 Karma: 126 Join Date: May 2017 Location: Madrid Device: Kindle PW2, PW3	Wow! A great master class! Really very interesting and informative, thank you for taking the time to write it down! But I think this is going too far for me. When I started messing with all this matter of margins, I expected it would be much easier. I have just left my loved kindle 4 where I could change margins just by editing a text file accessible from windows! Ok, I accepted the challenge of learning about SSH, editing java files, etc... but I thought that those were just some tools to do more or less the same I did in my old kindle: change a value. Now, not only is not so easy to find which value I have to edit, but I have discovered how easy is to break my device by editing the wrong one (I never expected that would be possible just by changing a value called fonts.wordsperline.default!). Ok, I was able to recover from near disaster and I was courageous enough to try to start again (more carefully this time). But I have discovered that I cannot find where the damned margins values are (for mobi, at least), and that the way to go deeper and at the same time trying to be on the safe side (the network connection and all that stuff) is too complicated, it needs too much study, too many hours of dedication for someone like me, withouth the basic knowledge. Not worth it. I appreciate very much all your directions, but I see that this could take much more time than I am willing to dedicate to this matter. In fact, I passed that boundary long ago: when I started, I expected to solve this in matter of minutes! It is tempting, I must confess, to try to go on, because I usually take these issues as a challenge, and I like these types of challenges, it is quite rewarding when you finally succeed. But, on the other side, I recognize that spending lots of hours learning about technical details that I will soon forget (because I will not use them anymore) just for changing a margin... is too much. Well, the good thing is that in the last days I have begun to feel not so bad with those awful default margins. I really hate them, yes, but maybe not so much as the first day, when I changed from my old K4 with 15 pt margins to the new one with 50 pt as a minimum. Now, page after page, I'm getting used to it. I will have to live with that! Thanks again for your patience, knc1! Last edited by JotaCe; 05-16-2017 at 08:01 AM.