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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does your eBook work when the embedded fonts do not display? If so, dump the fonts as you have no way of getting them to work on an older Kindle.
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I haven't finished reading this thread yet but I keep hearing this same sentiment over & over again & it's annoying.
Here's why
- Some books need to have different fonts. For example I read a book series that at times has 8 different narrators. The author did a wonderful job of making it engaging by having each narrator use a different font. I don't have an eBook version of this series, so I don't know how that would work, but the fonts chosen for each character help to display the character of the narrator. Like a less educated character can have a less proper, serif-free font, while more formal characters can have a more elegant font. Now do you loose anything by having them all with the same font? Yes, absolutely. Can you get by without it? Sure, you could put the narrator's name at the top of their section, mostly they narrate whole chapters so that's easy enough & they already have the narrator's name at the top of the chapter anyway, but on rare occasions you have a different narrator interrupt the current one with a "You're telling that part wrong". It's not a dialogue between the characters, it's more a dialogue with the reader, it's like someone took the notebook from the person writing it & wrote, to the reader, that what they said was wrong because they weren't there, & here's what really happened. That was only really done in the 1st couple books with multiple narrators, so it was more blatant with the font change, & I think it'd be confusing if it happened with 8 narrators & you didn't necessarily remember whose font it was, but the point still stands.
- If you are making a digital version of an author's work & that author included different fonts for things & you don't you are not giving a faithful digital copy of the original work. & if you are doing so under contract you may just be breaking the contract.
- JRR Tolkien. You know when he 1st published the publisher "Corrected" his "Typo" of Elves to Elfs & Dwarves to Dwarfs. But Tolkien did this intentionally. Dwarfs & Elfs were the "correct" words at the time, but they were associated with "Silly tales" as Tolkien put it. & He wanted to distinguish the races in his stories from the races in literature at the time. But now when people think of either race they think of the ones based on Tolkien's creation. Dwarfs were more like Snow White's dwarfs & elfs more like the kind that make cookies & toys. Before Tolkien that was what everyone thought of when you said those words. When the author makes an intentional choice & you change it... You're wrong. Plain & simple
- This thread is about "Help: missing embedded fonts after ePub3 transfer to Kindle" This whole thread is ABOUT the fonts. Saying "Don't use them" would be no different than someone asking how to play basketball & you telling them to play soccer instead. It's beyond not helpful, it's rude & inappropriate.