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Old 03-13-2018, 06:24 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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.
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 View Post
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.
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.)
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 View Post
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?
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.


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