Tutorial: Reducing line spacing in Kindle readers

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jackm8

I update the samples in the first post, and added a few extra scaled fonts. With WinterBreak now available, this process is now outdated for everyone with it. It should still be viable for people not willing to jailbreak their Kindles.

Regarding fonts, I'm only posting open source or freeware fonts, so no Adobe fonts. Also no Amazon fonts, as I've no idea regarding their licencing model. My own taste prevailed regarding fonts that I included. Coromrant and Cardo are both Garamond inspired fonts. EB Garamond is one of the first open source Garamond fonts. Charis and it's derivative Chareink appear to be popular here. I included both. Questrial is Futura like open source font, while Inter is a popular sans serif font. I'm also a longtime FC Internazionale fan, so that's an extra reason for including it.

Samples are all taken with 'Bold' setting in the reader set to lowest possible. 'Spacing' setting is in every case set to the smallest possible.

If you have a jailbroken Kindle, how do you reduce the line height and the L/R margins for KF8 & KFX?

[jackm8]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you have a jailbroken Kindle, how do you reduce the line height and the L/R margins for KF8 & KFX?

I guess that you can't do that. I haven't jailbroken mine, yet, but Koreader isn't supporting kf8 and kfx, as far as I know. But you can just use Koreader and epubs. That way you can change line spacing in Koreader.

[FriedSpam]

@jackm8

I literally joined this site to say thank you! This is a clean solution to something that has bothered me since I bought my Kindle pw

[beecom]

This is a very helpful method for me using word wise. Thank you very much.
One problem is that I have the Bookerly fonts enlarged to 150 and 130% respectively and put both sets on Kindle, but only one of the two sets is recognized even though I entered different Family Names in the PS Names section. Is it not possible to use multiple versions of the same font at the same time?

-> I think I found the answer. Some fonts like Bookerly require the "preferred family" in the TTF name section to match the "family name" in the PS name section to create multiple edited sets.

[kvothe]

Do you know if there is any way that we could mannually adjust the size of word wise hints? I notice that once my device (Kindle Oasis 3) updated to 5.18.2, the font size for word wise hints became much smaller than previous firmaware, which is extremely annoying.

[jackm8]

Originally Posted by FriedSpam

@jackm8

I literally joined this site to say thank you! This is a clean solution to something that has bothered me since I bought my Kindle pw

I'm glad that it's working for you.

Originally Posted by kvothe

Do you know if there is any way that we could mannually adjust the size of word wise hints? I notice that once my device (Kindle Oasis 3) updated to 5.18.2, the font size for word wise hints became much smaller than previous firmaware, which is extremely annoying.

I'm afraid that only way to do that would be to pester Amazon to change it back to how it was before.