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Originally Posted by odamizu
I'm curious about the same thing, and I edit my ebooks for my own reading pleasure (and to accommodate my visual impairment).
My first ereader was a Sony years ago. That's when I started stripping publisher line-height and font-size to establish a consistent base-line. Then I would add the line-height and font-size I needed in order to read comfortably. This had the added benefit of making all of my ebooks consistent.
I never changed this workflow after moving to Kindle, but mariowarner's question makes me wonder.
Does publisher line-height and font-size have any effect on a Kindle or does the Kindle override it?
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For line-height, the font size is the driver. It's exceedingly difficult to force, for example, a 1.4em line-height for a 1em font. However, if you size a body font to, say, 1.5ems, the line-height adjusts to suit it.
But, if you use your bog-standard 1em body font--it's 1.2, no matter what. I had this client that went b*tshit over the fact that the mobi we gave him had that line-height and spacing. His "other formatter's" work was "better" because the file that guy gave him was 1x line-spacing. I told him and demonstrated that no matter what, when that other, "better" file (yup, that's the sound of my teeth grinding) was uploaded to the KDP, the resulting final for-sale file had the ubiquitous 1.2em line-height.
So, if you're making it for yourself, sure, you can probably do what you want. However, if you are uploading it to the KDP, be aware that it's unlikely to work.
Also--if you force it, by putting in some "large-print edition" fontsize, say, 1.8 or what-have-you, you should fully expect an Amazon nastygram in the form of a KQN--Kindle Quality Notice, telling you, "Hey, boyo, fix this or we'll remove the book from sale."
The KPGuidelines are pretty clear about fonts, font sizes, etc. Remember, the publisher isn't Amazon's customer, the readers are, and they can be very, very annoyingly demanding about vanilla interiors, by and large.
Hitch