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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So no alignment is justified and without editing the code, you can only change this on newish/new Kindles.
What I don't understand is why Amazon could not use the same or similar firmware for older Kindles. Kobo does this and it means that older Kobos last longer.
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Sorry, sweetie, don't know. Ask some of the steely-eyed programmers here. Out of my wheelhouse.
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Originally Posted by Notjohn
But Hitch, surely you have a workaround for Look Inside? I recall looking at one of your samples that you posted on the KDP forum (when LI changed to a more professional appearance last year or the year before), and I am sure it was justified.
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Hmmmm...surely I must, then. ;-)
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Anyhow, almost every book from a reputable publisher is justified in the Look Inside sample. (And I include Amazon imprints in the "reputable" category, tee hee.)
Happily, I do not have 3500 books to fix, only 26. And at my age I'm not sure that I would even bother to fix them. A publishing world where books can be ragged right, double-spaced, block-paragraphed, or set in Courier boldface throughout is not one that attracts me very much. Let Jeff read that dreck if he wants. (He probably has his pool boy recite to him.)
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Yes--that's because they all upload ePUBs via FTP, and Amazon doesn't police the books. That's the bottom line. A crapload of readers would have to complain, about a given trade-pubbed book, to get Amazon to step in. For the rest of us mere mortals, well...that's a completely different story.
We're at the mercy of Kindle Quality Notices. I honestly don't know if Jeff would have the attachments to slap one of those suckers on a RH book.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I just took a look at a KF8 eBook from Open Road Media and it has a bunch of left and justify in some of the used classes.
So if Amazon says not to use left or justify, how do the big publishers get away with it?
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See my comment to NJ, above.
Look, laddies, I'm not arguing in
favor of ragged-right. I
hate it. Loathing, here. BUT...ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to code and die.
Hitch