Kindle Paperwhite 2-Voyage Software Update 5.6.5

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Of course you can. You can select any font, just as you could before.

Originally Posted by dordale

Yup--the update just adds Bookerly as another font option--it doesn't replace any of the existing fonts. You will still have the option to use "publisher font" if you want to use a font you've embedded into your book.

Thanks!

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

I'm with you on this, Caecelia is still a better font to me, it's a bit darker and thicker than Bookerly.

I'm using Helvicta, it's the only font I am happy with.

[patrickt]

I would prefer Bookerly if it were darker. As my eyes get older the darker fonts are more important.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I would prefer Bookerly if it were darker. As my eyes get older the darker fonts are more important.

I agree that it could do with being a little bolder.

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I'm using Helvicta, it's the only font I am happy with.

Yes, Helvetica is probably Kindle's darkest font, but I just prefer a serif font for reading books for some odd reason, it's more comfortable for me. Which is really odd since most web pages are sans serif fonts and I don't have a problem with them at all reading on the computer. It's just my (probably quirky) preference to use a serif font for reading books.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

Yes, Helvetica is probably Kindle's darkest font, but I just prefer a serif font for reading books for some odd reason, it's more comfortable for me. Which is really odd since most web pages are sans serif fonts and I don't have a problem with them at all reading on the computer. It's just my (probably quirky) preference to use a serif font for reading books.

Not odd at all. There's a very good reason why printed books use serif fonts as a body font almost without exception. Most people do find serif fonts more comfortable to read.

[shanghaichica]

I'm downloading it now to transfer to my voyage. That was quick. The new paperwhite has only been out just over a month. I thought it would hold onto the new font feature for a while longer. But hey I'm not complaining.

[mfirewire]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Extremely doubtful. Nothing has changed on our end, so unless Amazon has decided to make it easier...

Will the jailbreak live for the jailbroken kindle paperwhite 2?

[shanghaichica]

Hmm I still think I prefer Paletino but I'll try the new font for a while.

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

I'm with you on this, Caecelia is still a better font to me, it's a bit darker and thicker than Bookerly.

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I'm using Helvicta, it's the only font I am happy with.

Originally Posted by patrickt

I would prefer Bookerly if it were darker. As my eyes get older the darker fonts are more important.

Caecelia is the default font isn't it? I'm not really fussy about fonts but either use it or Helvicta because I prefer the darker font. I've recently moved up from size two to three for most books so perhaps like patrickt my eyes are ageing a little and that's why I prefer the darker text and while Bookerly looks quite nice, lighter as it is (like Paletino), I probably won't use it.

[Hobb]

I have just updated my new KPW (7th gen) and loaded a sample custom ebook to check if ligatures are supported.

Nothing changed compared to the previous firmware version.

Is there anything that I need to add to the CSS to enable the ligatures? I cannot see them neither with the custom embedded font nor any other font available by default on Kindle, including Bookerly.

I tried adding the following lines:
-webkit-font-feature-settings: "liga";
font-feature-settings: "liga";
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;

and the ligatures work in Sigil, but once an epub is converted to azw3 and sent to Kindle, they do not work.

[GERGE]

None of the features work with sideloaded books.

[jhowell]

It took me a couple of tries to find a book in my library that exhibits the advanced typesetting features. The first two I tried by deleting and re-downloading to my PW2 didn't show anything new despite being marked as Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled in the description.

The third I tried does show the new ragged right margin at larger font sizes and hyphenation. I looked in my Kindle's documents folder and found the working book with a 'kfx' extension instead of 'azw' or 'azw3'. Does this indicate a new format for Kindle books?

[disconnected]

Originally Posted by shanghaichica

Hmm I still think I prefer Paletino but I'll try the new font for a while.

I thought I must be the only one. I prefer Palatino too.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GERGE

None of the features work with sideloaded books.

Or at least nobody has yet discovered what the key is to making the Kindle recognise a book as having "enhanced typesetting" enabled.