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Having botched some books (managed to get double copies with some Calibre meta-data work), I did a Voyage factory reset a month ago or so. Books that I downloaded after THAT, even though purchased a long while ago, did come down as .KFX . I had to use "download to my computer so I can use USB to put it on my Kindle" to force a non-KFX version to download. (Not actual terminology.)
JHOWELL, have you tried going to your Kindle as a mounted device on your computer, and deleting ALL the parts to that particular book? That might force the next download to bring it down in a new format. Maybe? |
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09-21-2015, 07:35 PM | #78 | |
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I went ahead and de-registered the kindle, reset it back to factory default and registered it again. I connected via USB to verify that none of my books remain and then re-downloaded On Basilisk Station and it is still delivered as AZW3. At this point I am out of ideas. Perhaps someone else running firmware 5.6.5 (2730300038) on a Kindle Paperwhite II can try this book and see which format they get on their device. (It is a free book.) |
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09-21-2015, 08:49 PM | #79 | |
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I have a PW2 at the 5.6.5 level, so I tried this and it looks like I got a kfx:
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09-22-2015, 02:00 AM | #81 |
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There's a difference between a new version that is just a conversion to KFX and a new version generated by a publisher's submission of a revision. You would automatically get KFX if the particular publisher's version you purchased had been converted. But you would NOT get KFX if Amazon had only converted publisher versions submitted AFTER your purchase. For those, you would have to contact Amazon and ask them to replace your older version with the new one.
In other words, say that a book had been updated by the publisher ten times, and you bought version 7. Amazon might have only converted versions 8-10. If so, you have to ask Amazon to replace your version #7 with the latest in order to get #10 with KFX. At least, this is what it's looking like to me, and maybe this is what happened to you. Note that not all revisions are offered to you, even if you ask for automatic updating. Revisions are only announced and updated automatically when the publisher specially requests that for a specific revision. (And then it takes a few weeks.) By the way, I've been writing on my blog about typographic problems of KFX and the new layout engine. If anyone's interested, the posts are here: http://www.newselfpublishing.com/blog/ Aaron |
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@jhowell: just delete the book from your library in manage content, then rebuy it. I think that should work.
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09-22-2015, 08:24 PM | #86 | |
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This is the kind of thing that makes KFX such a devil. None of the regular proofing methods will show you this new treatment of nonbreaking spaces, so it won't show up until weeks after publication, when the file is reprocessed for Enhanced Typesetting. And by that time, you're not likely to be paying attention. I doubt there's any ebook software out there that has yet caught up to these changes. Aaron |
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Besides, they're (Amazon) not the first to have renderers that ignored empty paragraphs (or paragraphs with only an nbsp). That's why the nbsp followed by a br tag convention came into play in the first place (and so long ago). They never had a format that rendered identically across all their devices and apps anyway. Publishers, creators and selfpubbers will survive this change too. They always do. It's always involved a lot of work planning and implementing a coding strategy to achieve similar rendering on the widest possible range of devices and apps (and formats) without resorting to maintaining 14 different versions of your ebook. This doesn't really change that. And if it forces people to start using css for vertical spacing (like they should have been doing all along), I'm all for it. Makes it exponentially easier for the person [Hi Hitch!] that's eventually going to get called in to fix it all, at some point down the road, anyway! Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-23-2015 at 10:57 AM. |
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Hi All,
All of this makes we wonder if the kfx format is not really a variation of "better" reflowable pdf document of some type or - even worse - an "improved" version of a Topaz ebook, all reflowed to fit the specific Kindle's screen size. It would explain the improved layout and formatting capabilities, font anti-aliasing, and etc since both Topaz and Reflowable PDFs are page description languages and not some sort of xhtml document. Just a thought that I truly hope is wrong. KevinH |
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This program is no longer working with the latest KFX variants and has been withdrawn.
Refer to calibre source code for KFX metadata extraction. Last edited by jhowell; 01-17-2017 at 10:39 AM. Reason: Remove non-working program |
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But that's not the primary use of the nonbreaking space. That space is meant to hold together phrases that should not be split into two lines. Every Kindle has supported this from the beginning. And now it's gone. So, you now can have line breaks in the middle of "OS X," or "7 inches." And that's just going to look dumb. It's bad enough that we haven't been able to use the nonbreaking hyphen on Kindle. This just makes it worse. Aaron |
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