Kindle firmware 5.13.3

[hius07]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW

[jhowell]

Release notes...

Version 5.13.3 – October 2020

Here’s what's new:

Public Library filter: You can filter your library to show public library books.

Kindle User Guide: The Kindle User Guide moved to the Help menu in Settings. Your old guides are saved to a User Guides folder at the end of your Library.

Kindle Unlimited / Prime Badging on Home: Subscribers can see which books from their home recommendations can be borrowed for free from Kindle Unlimited or Prime Reading.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.

[SeaBookGuy]

Does this enable wider margins than the current firmware?

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

Does this enable wider margins than the current firmware?

Wider? The widest are ½" on a Paperwhite and almost ¾" on the Oasis. That makes columns of 2.5" and not quite 3". You want columns even more narrow?

[SeaBookGuy]

By "wider" I meant less narrow... as in text closer to the edge of the page.

[Deskisamess]

I've learned how to adjust the books themselves using Calibre, to get the margin to about 1/16th of an inch. It works on both my Paperwhite and 2nd gen Oasis.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...in#post4043989

[Quoth]

Probably not, sadly. It's mad how fat the minimum margin is. Setting it negative in the CSS is possible.

[JSWolf]

The following code works well on a 300DPI Kindle in KF8 (not tested with KFX).

html {
  margin-right:-45px;
  margin-left: -45px;
}

Put that at the top of the CSS.

[cerem0ny]

I find the current widest margin fine. Its the other two that are useless!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by cerem0ny

I find the current widest margin fine. Its the other two that are useless!

You actually like reading newspaper sized columns?

[raghiid]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You actually like reading newspaper sized columns?

My guess is he means the widest column size (not margin)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by raghiid

My guess is he means the widest column size (not margin)

Maybe, but if that's the case, then he has the terminology all wrong.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

By "wider" I meant less narrow... as in text closer to the edge of the page.

You actually should have said narrower margins. That's the correct terminology.

[Deskisamess]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You actually like reading newspaper sized columns?

Sometimes, when my eye muscles are tired and reading in bed sans glasses, I use the narrow column choice. When I read this way, the Kindle screen is very close to my face, 6-7 inches. A more narrow column means less eye travel back and forth, and I can actually read much faster with less muscle fatigue.

All of these different options are what make reading on an e-reader so wonderful. I can change the settings depending on my vision needs at any one moment. I am not a "set it and forget it" type of reader. Sometimes I need more white space, so I use a wider line spacing. Sometimes I need a larger font, and so on.

There is no "default" setting for me. It all depends on what tricks my brain is playing with my eyes on any certain day.

[Sirtel]

I find the narrowest margins on my Kindles fine. Possibly because I read exclusively on Kindles for many years. I don't use the narrowest possible margins on my Kobo either.

Ditto for line-spacing.

As to font sizes, I use the font_ramp hack on my Kindles. Sometimes I switch between sizes 4 and 5 on my custom scale. On my Kobo I seldom switch between font sizes. On my Nook I use customized base font size and so I never switch there.

I should add that all my ebooks have uniform margins, line-spacing and base font size, so I don't have to change them between books.