[davidfor]

Originally Posted by FrustratedReader

A screen shot would have told nothing more except I wasn't making it up.

That is BS. A screenshot would have told us:

• Exactly what it looked like. We believed you, but demonstrating what you saw is always a good idea as maybe we misinterpreted something you said. And as I couldn't reproduce it, I needed some guidance.
• That you were using kepubs not epubs. The title bar would have told us that.
• Or, that you were using the unsupported fullscreen mode which had bugs. And that might have been the cause of the problem. The discussion following that would probably have revealed that you were using kepub.

My point is that you did little to help us help you. The screenshots and sample would have made sure we were all talking about the same thing.

I'm not going to comment on how to produce a book as it isn't my thing. Except to say that I any time I have looked at the code of a book from Smashwords, it is so bad that I sometimes wonder why it actually works. My opinion would be that if you care about the look of a book, you should create and fine-tune the epub and submit that.

Anyway, Calibre is great on Linux and was great on XP. The drivers and plug-ins are appreciated. None of it is obvious for even experienced users coming to the "system" fresh. It's awkward too when you move OS or install on an additional laptop that I can easily archive and restore the titles, but having all the same plug-ins and drivers with all the same settings seems awkward.

Calibre has a mechanism designed for moving a library from one machine to another. I'm pretty sure this includes the configuration.

Also things seem to unexpectedly change. Was it the firmware on a Reader? All the other models / brands seem OK? Or a Calibre update, or driver, or plug-in, or a setting or even the Linux Desktop? There are very many settings.

In the time-frame you are talking about, nothing should have changed. Nothing in the firmware or calibre drivers changed. I'm pretty sure nothing in the areas of calibre you use would have had a noticeable change. Any changes were differences were more likely in the book.

Also most OS, Software , HW it's now nearly impossible to contact anyone. Or get more than a Lawyer sanitised Marketing reply from an offshore call centre. MS doesn't even listen to the feedback on the Insider program.

I haven't needed to contact anyone like that for years. I search the web and find somewhere that answers the question. Here is the best place I have found for ebooks and ereaders.

I'm not making any definitive suggestions as to how anything should be changed.

It definitely sounded like you were. But my response was because I thought you suggestion was a lot worse than what is currently

Just suggesting that only I personally didn't understand the significance of what I was reading on descriptions, dialogue text and the tool tip hover text.

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for that. If you don't understands something, don't use it until you do. Surely a person with over 30 years of development experience knows that.