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Old 01-13-2021, 12:04 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by marst View Post
Regarding the inability to display the book's text flush-left/ragged right:



Before the Kobo began giving me trouble with syncing—and before this particular book became a problem—I absolutely could switch it to flush-left/ragged right when I read it on the Kobo. (To date, all books I've downloaded from the Kobo site supported that feature of the software.)

Before I used a Kobo I had several e-reader apps on a Samsung tablet. Some of them had controls that could override the style sheets' "text-align:justify" and worked every time. Some could override other formatting hard-coded in the CSS as well, such as inter-paragraph spacing or even first-line indents. (Those books were not kepub file, though—just ePub 2.)

So: the book as originally downloaded from the Kobo site could be displayed FL/RR. The version I finally got back onto the Kobo via the ADE solution, could not be displayed that way. As for the fonts in these messages, changing to font size '4' and in particular changing to a serif typeface makes them a lot easier for me to read. But if this is going to be a point of contention I'll leave the formatting at the default settings.
I have no idea why there might be "Point of contention". I was stating how things work and trying to explain some of what you are seeing. The Kobo devices have multiple ereader for different formats. They all work differently. What the Adobe RMSDK can do is different to what the kepub renderer can do. And the books downloaded to the device as kepubs are not the same as the epubs downloaded from the library. They get changed if he publisher updates the books, but, they don't necessarily get changed in both places. Or for all users.

The above is the same for other devices and apps. Some respect the styles in the book and do not allow many changes. Some completely ignore the styles and override everything. The Adobe RMSDK falls on the "respect the book" side of things. For kepubs, it allows a few more things to be overridden.

But, from my point of view, there is little difference. I can't think of the last time I sideloaded an epub and the font settings couldn't be changed. That means I find the idea that all of your books can't have these changes strange, or a fluke of your book selection. It could be that because of the books you like, they all come from one publisher who uses a particular style.

If this is an issue for you, you need to look at solving the problem of why the books are not downloading to the device. Based on what you have done, I would start with a full factory reset. Not the one from Device information page of the settings, but using https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...Kobo-Libra-H2O. That will re-install the factory firmware before taking you through the setup. That will clean everything up and let you start from the beginning. And it should let the books sync to the device. If they don't it would suggest a problem at the server end with your account or particular books.
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