Firmware Update New Kindle software update: 5.18.5

[zaqxsw]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

That sounds like piracy, but unnecessary complicated.

Not really, I don't share the books and can't read them in the allotted item...

[slm]

Jhowell moved his discussion of the change in DRM to a different thread. His short summary of the effect of the new firmware on DRM appears in this post

[zaqxsw]

Thanks!

[vermontcathy]

Originally Posted by odamizu

P.S. Has anyone running 5.18.5 successfully removed DRM from a book published after September 14, 2025?

UPDATE - Nevermind - the book I was able to remove the DRM for had been downloaded to my Colorsoft before I updated it to 5.18.5. I tried it with a newly downloaded book and it doesn't work.

Today, Calibre had an update (8.11.1) and I was able to remove the DRM.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Should do, but a -1.6% or something might suit all Kindles better?

Any kindle that supports css.

47px works well on a 300dpi Kindle.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Waylander

Just reporting that @JSWolf's CSS for margins works on my PW6. It's great to have such small margins again, getting more text on the screen.

Now if you are using KF8 (AZW3) format eBooks, you can get even more text on screen by using myu ChareInk7SP font. The font can be found at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056 and you get a smaller line height and a lot more text on screen. Also, if you use the Hyphenate This! plugin, you can add soft hyphens to the text and get hyphenated text on screen for less gaps. It works very well on a Kindle using KF8.