[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Brett Merkey

@JSWolf:


Wow, thanks for that but seems like lots of layers there. I had originally tried media queries in Calibre to save the one step of going back into a converted AZW with Calibre to edit the CSS to put large, negative margins on the HTML root tag.

When I put in negative margins, I put in -45px for a 300DPI Kindle. I also use the Hyphenate This! plugin to put in soft hyphens as they work very well on KF8. And I use ChareInk as the font for a Kindle that supports fonts as I've modified it so the line height for KF8 is a lot smaller. So it makes the text look better. The only thing I don't get is kerning because KF8 doesn't support it. But ChareInk would work for KFX as it has kerning and a better line height and you get more text on a page then you do with Bookerly and I think it look better.

ALL, each and every book I read on the Kindle or tablet, I extensively recode via Calibre in order to improve the typography and add visual interest, as well as insert proper conventions such as blockquote. The Paperwhite wastes lots of space at the margins, so I want to add negative margins for the PW without destroying the look of the ePub or the Calibre viewer.

I too fix up the ePub. Some require more work then others. Sometimes the CSS can be a real mess. I put in my out body and p. I remove unused CSS in the HTML and CSS. I delete any rubbish such as the HTML ToC. I remove things like advertising for other books, any previews, any reviews, any copyright notices not part of the copyright page, and any other rubbish I don't need. I also reduce the size of the cover and title page to 1600 lines is they are larger. I also losslessly recompress using a value of 80 to save size. I don't notice the difference. Because I put in my own p, any classes are .class or p.class, and it has a center, I put in a text indent of 0. And I reduce the silly chapter headers to something that takes a lot less space. Yes this all sounds like a lot of work, but really, it's not that hard to do.