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Originally Posted by Readirect
I've run into this problem too. The font weight/size always works, the margin choice is hit or miss. At first I thought it was a KFX/AZW3 thing but it has occurred for me on both. My sideloaded books *never* have the margin choice but I've already set that to my preference in Calibre so it doesn't matter.
It's clear that whatever they did to (partially) imitate Kobo's typography, it is an imperfect kludge and when combined with multiple versions of books on their servers, they (and users) have a mess.
I'm guessing that this isn't something that can be easily fixed by them. The way for users to fix this, of course, is to return to sideloading books and manipulating those features in Calibre. Pain in the butt -- especially compared to Kobo -- but it works.
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Sounds about right, but if I wanted to do all that I would have gone with a Kobo.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
Enhanced typesetting is complicated. It requires the book to be sent to your device in KFX format. That can fail to happen for several reasons. You might have bought and downloaded the book before it was available in KFX.
Another reason for failure is that KFX keeps having new features added over time and the books and reading software are updated frequently. If you do not have the latest firmware on your kindle you may not get some books delivered in KFX.
And as was mentioned you are usually locked in to the version of the book that was current at the time you bought it. Even if the book is subsequently updated in most cases that will not be made available. But in that case all of your devices me will receive the same version.
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That's what I thought at first, but it seems like a lot of my books that didn't have advanced typesetting now do and work just fine for me, while others are still missing a few features. There really seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which books will be affected.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd suggest raising the issue of this particular book with Amazon, and see what they say about it.
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Considering it took them 6 years to fix the misaligned drop letters at the start of every chapter in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, I don't really hold a lot of hope for this method. But I'll make a report anyways just to see.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
FWIW, I have The Martian and there are no Enhanced Typography features on any platform (Kindle, Fire, or iOS - I don’t have Android handy), despite what the product description says.
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That's the thing, it does. All settings work for that book on my Android and iOS Kindle apps. They used to not work at all on my eInk Kindle, but now the majority do with one caveat, no ragged right option. Another commenter Shari has also confirmed that all features are working for her.
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Originally Posted by shalym
Interesting...I bought the book a few weeks ago, and I am seeing all of the enhanced typography features. Can you hook your Kindle up to your computer to check what the filetype of the book is when you download it to the device from Amazon?
Shari
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That seems to be in line with what Readirect is saying, that it can depend on when the book was purchased. I purchased mine before advanced typography was a thing, and yet it seems to have been updated with the features, only that the ragged right option is broken on my eInk Kindles. Very odd indeed.
And thanks everyone for taking the time to comment on the issue. Definitely a big help to see I am not the only one who has noticed this.