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Old 11-30-2024, 07:38 PM   #45
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You cannot adjust the margin on the Kindle beyond a certain point and that point is too large.
In the older models, you had fine control over the global margin used for all books and other documents, as explained here:

Mobileread Wiki - How to Change Margins

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You can adjust the margin if you use negative margins in the eBook. You also have to use a font such a ChareInk6 to lessen the overly large line height.
This may be true, except I do not quite understand your point.

With newer eInk Kindles, I have to individually adjust the margin by doing a conversion in calibre. Under Look & Feel - Styling I always put in this extra CSS:

html {
margin-right: -66px;
margin-left: -50px;
}

In recent years, I always use the Bookerly font, but I think the above is fine with most of them.

This still leaves some margin that I think of as wasted space on the eInk, since I do not have a white bezel that would be the margin.

The problem with the method for adjusting the margin of newer Kindles is that AFAIK it is impossible to adjust the margins of a library borrow with DRM. If I am wrong about that, anyone is invited to correct me.

My point here is that, for my personal purposes, Amazon hasn't significantly improved the Kindle; newer models are better some ways and worse in others. The biggest improvement I do see is more resistance to screen cracking.
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