Thread: Firmware Update Kindle Firmware update 5.9.6 - Hell has frozen over (custom fonts)
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Old 06-20-2018, 01:13 AM   #140
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Originally Posted by nqk View Post
No, it doesn't work for me. Or maybe I did it wrong. I prepared an epub, using css similar to the instruction, converted it to azw3 using Calibre, sent to Kindle (with the font already sideloaded). But the book doesn't open in Kindle Paperwhite.

Here is the epub and azw3: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvOnHiMTAGM9hPgxP78e6wfLvb1w8Q
I did some digging around using a borrowed Voyage. What seems to happen is Kindle firmware 5.9.6 did not accept either of the two ways that work on Kobo firmware for pointing to a sideloaded font allowing it to be used as if it was an embedded font.
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