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Originally Posted by Sirtel
What horrible paragraph spacing? The only possible paragraph spacing for me personally is no paragraph spacing, that is, no spaces between paragraphs. I fix all my ebooks to not have them. YMMV, as always.
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I meant word spacing. AZW3 doesn't support hyphenation, so there's really no solution for justified text.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
I am not changing the topic. I am saying that most of what Amazon claims to be "enhanced typesetting" has been available on other devices for decades. It's like reading a claim that a new TV has enhanced audio since it now support a TOS optical connection.
Simple items such as forcing a minimum 1.2 line height. On my ePub readers, I don't set a line height allowing the user to set the line height using the ereader controls if they don't like the default. Other such as the kerning, ligatures, etc.? Again available elsewhere for decades. With the download speeds currently available using either WiFi or cellular connections, the ability to start reading before the full book has downloaded is not all that useful (again all IMNSHO).
As for KOReader? For the most part, it's a pretty decent renderer but does not handle many ePub3 options such as initial letter. Since I edit most ebooks before reading them—most new ePubs have decent enough formatting making editing a pretty trivial task—I no longer find KOReader of much use.
If you are happy with KFX, I have no issues with that. Just please try to realize that Amazon's Enhanced Typesetting does not seem to offer any typesetting features that have not been available elsewhere for years if not decades.
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You're again not providing anything that would substantiate your words. You're saying that it's all available elsewhere, but it's apparently not available in KOReader, it's certainly not available in AZW3. Where and on which devices is it? For myself, I can also confirm that KFX is more advanced compared to EPUB3 on Pocketbook. So where can I see what you're saying in action? It really shouldn't be that hard to take a screenshot from your devices, right? I've provided you with epub. Fonts that I used are open source. Just put the epub on your device, and take a screenshot on the same pages that I did.
And, yes you are changing your words, you went from KFX forcing the look of the books, which I'm glad to say, has been overruled, to KFX providing nothing new. In a few more posts, you'll start admitting that it offers features not present elsewhere.
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Here's same epub on my Pocketbook InkPad in its native reader. That should be one of the devices that fits "Amazon's Enhanced Typesetting does not seem to offer any typesetting features that have not been available elsewhere for years if not decades."
Ligatures work. But it again does nothing to image sizes. So they're too small in this case as well. And I can't enlarge them, either. I also didn't get the justification to work. It may be possible, but it would require tinkering with the file. Still, with KFX it all works out of the box without any fuss at all. And I think that's the biggest benefit of it. In combination with native Kindle reader, it provides simple experience that works really well in most cases. I've pretty much moved completely to epub and KOReader on my Kindle, but denying KFX's benefits, or downplaying them, is a bit silly. It's a good format.