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Originally Posted by tekkasit
The Kindle Scribe is quite limited in terms of customizable options compared to Kobo devices.
What Scribe catch up:
- Side-loaded fonts are supported.
- Scribe also has the "Display Cover" option.
What options you will be missing:
- There are 14 pre-defined font sizes. Not configurable.
- For margin and line spacing options, they offer three values. Also not configurable.
Tips:
- For new documents, better choose ePub instead of Mobi format. But as of now, Kindle doesn't recognize ePub files natively. You need to convert it either through Calibre or Amazon's Send to Kindle service.
- Amazon's Send to Kindle service has support for EPUB files, however, it still assumes ISO-8859-1 encoding if no encoding is specified, while others assume UTF-8. This creates malformed formatting errors for special characters in many ePub files. https://kindle-epub-fix.netlify.app/ |
Currently I edit pretty much everything with Calibre book editor editing each book and using the fix all errors that the Calibre book editor finds. With Calibre it wouldn't be much trouble to convert them to MOBI or AZW3. I'd much prefer this method to having Amazon do the conversions and send them over the air.
I'm glad that the side-loaded fonts and display book cover options are now available. I'll have to get by with the margins and line heights. With the 10 inch screen there should be a lot more space so spreading out the words might not be much of a problem.
The weight of my Kobo Sage and cover is 390g now so the 433g weight should be a big adjustment.