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Originally Posted by Frogm4n
Is there a particular reason you seem to be focused on those? You can get a Kindle that runs firmware 5.9.6, which adds user font support, or 5.13.5 that adds book cover support as long as the Kindle is not ad-supported.
Margins was a problem of the ancient and very limited MOBI format. You should be able to use AZW3 or KFX and get the margins aligned as you want. Even better, you can jailbreak all reasonably modern Kindles (for now) and install KOReader and have a highly configurable reading program that will read non-DRM EPUB and PDF directly.
Only the early models with a frontlight couldn't be turned off. I don't recall when they stopped that, but it wasn't too long after. I want to say the PW1 and PW2 were the only ones but that's just a guess.
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So I use Calibre and use "old" format as my output. Why?
Simple reason -- for dyslexic reasons, I use Comic Sans as my reading font.
When I use "old" format, italics are marked as "<I>", and display properly.
When I use the newer format, italics become a class (div? span?) tag, and suddenly only display as normal (non-italic). (Comic sans does not actually have an italic face).
As for why I use the older 3/4's: Given that the device is destroyed by accidental / minor water damage, given that all the "paperwhite"'s that I've tried had a forced white light while reading, given that it seems the only way to get a non-light, water-resistant kindle is a very expensive one with tight/non-end-user friendly software, I want to use an older model instead.
Amazon chose to say "We want to control how you read", to where I no longer wanted the newer models. So, unless that has changed, or unless there's a better reading program for that hardware (Ok, I *like* the paperwhite display, if the light is off), I want the more end-user-friendly older stuff.
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that adds book cover support as long as the Kindle is not ad-supported.
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I really, really do not mind "ad supported".
But consider that the g4's no longer talk to the kindle store, no longer download ads, but still insist on displaying a generic cover. An advertisement is one thing; the book cover is another.
Display an ad on the home page? Fine.
Display an ad when I turn the kindle on? OK.
Force an ad over the book cover when the kindle is not in use? Why? That's a pure negative to the end user.