09-02-2010, 03:12 AM | #31 |
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Have you actually successfully done this?
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09-02-2010, 03:21 AM | #32 |
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Yes I have, so that's pretty strange!
Basically I had a bunch of ePub books with a huge left margin, and I was advised to use Sigil to edit the CSS stylesheets, which I did, and I then subsequently used Calibre to convert them to Mobi and transferred them onto my K3. The margins were indeed no longer there! |
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I have tried this but it won't stick, just reverts back to 40 for me, odd...
This is the text I have #User preferences for Reader Booklet #Thu Sep 02 08:46:16 GMT+01:00 2010 FONT_SIZE=17 DICTIONARY=The New Oxford American Dictionary LINE_SPACING=1 JUSTIFICATION=full LAST_BOOK_READ=/mnt/us/documents/Hamilton, Peter F_/Evolutionary Void, The - Peter F. Hamilton.mobi HORIZONTAL_MARGIN=40 FONT_FAMILY=condensed Last edited by grizedale; 09-02-2010 at 03:48 AM. |
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1) Go to Home on your Kindle (it is important that you have all your books closed) 2) Attach the Kindle to your pc, find the file \system\com.amazon.ebook.booklet.reader\reader.pre f and change the margins as you please. 3) Unplug the Kindle, go to settings and make a restart (do not open any book before the restart). Now you should have the margin width you chose; changing font size, font typeface and line spacing doesn't reset the margins value. On the other hand if you change "words per line" it does reset the margin to the default value (40pixels). Basically this has solved the problem for me. Thank you all guys!! Last edited by olis; 09-02-2010 at 03:55 AM. |
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Ok it doesn't go exactly bezel to bezel, but the resulting margin is more acceptable to me, perhaps I had misunderstood the meaning of removing the left and right margins.
Ok on the left is my original ePub file, on the right is the same file after editing with Sigil and conversion to Mobi. I now realise that there *IS* still a left and right margin, but I felt that it was small enough to be acceptable. I am piqued now though, we can do bezel to bezel with no space between text and bezel? |
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Cool stuff grizedale!
Thanks to olis, and isotherm, no more bezels! Last edited by geekgeek; 09-02-2010 at 04:39 AM. |
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Brilliant !
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What a splendid find. I do find that no margin at all is too close to the bezel. 10 does seem good. This is on a Kindle 2i
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09-02-2010, 06:21 AM | #45 |
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What exactly is your method? The one described above or something else?
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