Troubleshooting Epub send to Kindle cover problem

[GnRFan79]

It’s a shame they don’t show up on the Kindle itself, as they do show up in the Kindle IOS app fine.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by shamanNS

Are you also one of those people that read using sans serif font and prefer left aligned (aka jagged right) to justified text?

What firmware version is on your Oasis? Since as far as I know those known edits for reducing the margins don't work anymore on firmware newer than 5.10.x..
Or are you setting negative margins for each book using CSS?

Nope, I read with a serif font and with fully justified text. And yes, I put negative margins in the css.

[hleo12]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Nope, I read with a serif font and with fully justified text. And yes, I put negative margins in the css.

If you put negative margins on css, do they really decrease the margins on the kindle? Cause when I convert books to azw3/kfx, the margins are set to 0 in the settings, but there are still huge margins on the kindle.

What values should I put on the margins? And do you do this manually? Or does Calibre accept negative numbers when converting?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by GnRFan79

It’s a shame they don’t show up on the Kindle itself, as they do show up in the Kindle IOS app fine.

It can be done on a jailbroken kindle.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...78&postcount=6

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by hleo12

If you put negative margins on css, do they really decrease the margins on the kindle? Cause when I convert books to azw3/kfx, the margins are set to 0 in the settings, but there are still huge margins on the kindle.

What values should I put on the margins? And do you do this manually? Or does Calibre accept negative numbers when converting?

For any epubs that I might want to send to my Kindle, I add the following in the main stylesheet:

@media amzn-kf8 {
  html {
    margin-left: -50px;
    margin-right: -50px;
  }
}

[kbs24]

So back to the covers issue, I have 3 e-ink kindles, and 4 fire tablets, and several other color tabs not amazon but having kindle apps. On all of the color tablets including the Fires, the book covers show up on the epubs sent to kindle (Az converted to az3.) Also when I send a .mobi it is a pdoc but the covers are there. The az3 format seems to be way better than the mobi, so I want to use it, and I would love it if someone can figure out why the e-inks appear differently. Very frustrating, would love to know also if in August they may change the process so that we have covers.

[Quoth]

Just never turn on WiFi and transfer AZW3 from Calibre direct.

[hleo12]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For any epubs that I might want to send to my Kindle, I add the following in the main stylesheet:

@media amzn-kf8 {
  html {
    margin-left: -50px;
    margin-right: -50px;
  }
}

Thank you.
So I just add that to the css file, then convert it to azw3?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by hleo12

Thank you.
So I just add that to the css file, then convert it to azw3?

Yes. You can also put it in the extra styles when converting. Note that this doesn't work with kfx, to my knowledge.

Personally I use -30px, experiment and find what suits you.

[hleo12]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yes. You can also put it in the extra styles when converting. Note that this doesn't work with kfx, to my knowledge.

Personally I use -30px, experiment and find what suits you.

Thanks again. I experimented with it and found -30px was the perfect value for my Kindle.

Having little to no margin at the sides makes it better to look at. Now, if only Amazon would let use the top and bottom margins too.