Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions

Originally Posted by booklover6

Please explain "add to your CSS stylesheet" Is this done in Calibre? Under Extra CSS?

Calibre questions are best left to those who use it. It has been a long time since I used it for conversions. But yes, I think you would add it in the Extra CSS field. I use Sigil so I can examine the entire stylesheet which is usually a separate file named SOMETHING.CSS. Some stylesheets are easier to modify than others. It all depends on the complexity of the stylesheet. If the publisher used a very complex stylesheet, then placing this statement in calibre's Extra CSS field might not work.

[booklover6]

Thanks, I do use Sigil, so I will try to edit it there.

[duydangle]

Can anyone post a image of a perfect unit - white and even. It seems my replacement is too warm (yellow), although it's very even. I don't know if I should order another replacement. I am satisfied with it in daily light, but it seems too yellow at night. I usually set brightness from 10 to 13 at night, and it seems yellow. I will find a modern camera to take a accurate picture tomorrow and I hope you guys can tell me the unit is normal or not.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Please explain "add to your CSS stylesheet" Is this done in Calibre? Under Extra CSS?

It's actually pretty tricky to do with calibre because it just doesn't insert the CSS but processes it. The reliable way is to dig into the book's CSS and HTML to figure out what you need to change. Putting *{ margin-left:....; margin-right:....} at start of CSS file may do the trick in most cases.

It's a PITA. Amazon should just let you set margin in reader.pref like on the kindle keyboard.

What I don't get is: I bet virtually no one uses the largest margin option, which leaves half the screen blank. After all, you can't write in the margin, or rest your thumb there because it's a touch screen. So why is that an option. I bet few people even use the second largest margin. Otoh, I bet a quite few people would use a smaller margin to squeeze maximum amount of text onto the screen were it available . But nope, can't have that.

The reason you need a margin on an ebook at all is because the bevel is not flush with screen and is a different color. If you can blend the bevel and screen together, you wouldn't need any virtual margin at all.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Barty

The reason you need a margin on an ebook at all is because the bevel is not flush with screen and is a different color. If you can blend the bevel and screen together, you wouldn't need any virtual margin at all.

Like... uh... a paper?

This would only work if there is absolutely no difference between the color of the bezel and the screen, and I don't think that's possible.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Barty

It's actually pretty tricky to do with calibre because it just doesn't insert the CSS but processes it. The reliable way is to dig into the book's CSS and HTML to figure out what you need to change. Putting *{ margin-left:....; margin-right:....} at start of CSS file may do the trick in most cases.

Yeah, I can't get it to work, but it may be all the other formatting that I use, along with my embedded fonts.

Hopefully there will be a jailbreak and a hack eventually.

Originally Posted by booklover6

Yeah, I can't get it to work, but it may be all the other formatting that I use, along with my embedded fonts.

Hopefully there will be a jailbreak and a hack eventually.

I often just strip out all the CSS the publisher used, assuming the publisher used H1, H2, Hx tags for headings, P tags for paragraphs. That is, if the publisher used the typical HTML tags one SHOULD use. Then add in my own CSS, but I keep it as simple as possible. (The KISS concept.). Unfortunately a few publishers often use tons of DIV and SPAN tags, and use P tags for headings, paragraphs, and pretty much everything. They use class parameters to change everything, just about. Those publishers are total idiots, and modifying their crap code takes forever!

If you use the left-margin parameter for the P tag, but later in the CSS there is another left-margin parameter for the P tag, then yours can be overwritten. That is why I try to clean house and get rid of all the publisher poop that shouldn't be in HTML designed for eBooks.

[Stringer]

Originally Posted by duydangle

Can anyone post a image of a perfect unit - white and even. It seems my replacement is too warm (yellow), although it's very even. I don't know if I should order another replacement. I am satisfied with it in daily light, but it seems too yellow at night. I usually set brightness from 10 to 13 at night, and it seems yellow. I will find a modern camera to take a accurate picture tomorrow and I hope you guys can tell me the unit is normal or not.

Easier said than done. Even taking the picture requires skill and probably good equipment. And if the photo succeeds, your uncalibrated display ruins it anyway.

Lets just agree it is yellowish and learn to live with it. Or actually I like it better that way after the first impression, so I leave the learning for you.

[dordale]

I'm happy with my PW2 and the coloring. (I don't have a PW1 to compare to). My screen does look a little yellow when reading in the dark--but I like it. I also find that I need to set the brightness to between 10 and 13 when reading in the dark--anything less than 10 is just too dark.

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by dordale

I'm happy with my PW2 and the coloring. (I don't have a PW1 to compare to). My screen does look a little yellow when reading in the dark--but I like it. I also find that I need to set the brightness to between 10 and 13 when reading in the dark--anything less than 10 is just too dark.

I find I have to keep my PW2 higher in the dark too as compared to my PW1 which I used to keep very low, about 3 or 4.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

I find I have to keep my PW2 higher in the dark too as compared to my PW1 which I used to keep very low, about 3 or 4.

Does that matter?

It could be that the scale is just larger: that the KPW2 is dimmer at the low end, and brighter at the high end, compared to the KPW1. There's no reason for the KPW2 to have the same light setting as the KPW1 to output the same amount of light.

Who cares what the number is, if the light level is OK...

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Does that matter?

Not in the least. I wasn't saying it did. And you are correct the PW2 is much dimmer at the low end.

[duydangle]

Originally Posted by Stringer

Easier said than done. Even taking the picture requires skill and probably good equipment. And if the photo succeeds, your uncalibrated display ruins it anyway.

Lets just agree it is yellowish and learn to live with it. Or actually I like it better that way after the first impression, so I leave the learning for you.

Originally Posted by dordale

I'm happy with my PW2 and the coloring. (I don't have a PW1 to compare to). My screen does look a little yellow when reading in the dark--but I like it. I also find that I need to set the brightness to between 10 and 13 when reading in the dark--anything less than 10 is just too dark.

Thanks for your comments. Actually the reason I asked for the images just because my first pw2 has light leaks but its lighting is white, very white. It's whiter than my pw1. But my second one, which is even, is yellower than my pw1. My pw1 is not very white, though.

But both of my pw2 have better text than pw1, it's sharper and easier to read. When turn pages without refreshing, it's very clear, not bad as on pw1.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by duydangle

But my second one, which is even, is yellower than my pw1.

What makes you believe that this is a fault?

[duydangle]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What makes you believe that this is a fault?

I don't think this is a fault but I think the screen color may vary so I just want to see a white screen with no pinhole looks like.