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Can you please give some titles of eBooks you've borrowed from Overdrive that you are having difficulties with? I'd like to see if I have access to any of these and can try on my H2O.
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Thanks for the responses! I only got an email this a.m informing me of follow up posts.
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Some of the problematic Overdrive epubs I borrowed were, The Fig Tree by Conn Iggulden The Camel Club by David Baldacci NYPD 3 by James Patterson Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo I'm inclined to think it might be an issue with the library/Overdrive since this has never happened before...although I'm not sure how the library itself would be responsible. I've fiddled with ADE in 50 different ways, made sure that both of our accounts are carefully, and separately, registered... Not sure what to do at this point. I guess look into this Calibre business! |
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The settings/tools are all there at the bottom, like usual, but it's as you said: the sliders have no effect on the font face or size, margins, justification, etc. And a lot of the library books we borrowed this time around are older... so wouldn't that negate the possibility that it was a publisher-set font, since this issue began to occur for us only within the last couple of weeks? |
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David, I'll take your 3 astonished question marks to infer that I am a clueless old fart
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Those are all big sellers and IIRC, they all have the same publisher so not negated at all. Oh and no one assumed you were a clueless old fart. Now I am not sure Calibre does anything with library (borrowed) books. |
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The exact behaviour depends on the firmware version. Early firmware couldn't adjust either the margins or line spacing if these were set in the books. There was also a difference depending on if the book set them in relative terms (em) or absolute (px). Also, I tend to find that older books are worse for this. There are still plenty of books with rubbish code in them, but I think the publisher/creators are slowly seeing the light. Very slowly. Quote:
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Jon; do you have an ISBN for that book?
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Hmm.. thanks
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Sorry it took so long to getting around to this...
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Opened the document on the kobo and the fonts were pretty big. Plug into the machine I have calibre on, used the "set reader fonts on selected books" tool in KoboUtilities (2.3.1, whoops, just noticed there's an update)... Get settings from device does nothing (which I think you predicted). Get configuration brings up some huge font size like 34... maybe the Linux Libertine font I'm using is messed up and 34 looks good on it but terrible on the built in fonts, I don't know. Anyway, if I cancel out and start over , KoboUtilities remembers a font size of 22 which is much more sane for the default fonts. If I then push that out to the ADE books, they look normal. |
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