Kindle For Android Taking up 1GB!

Originally Posted by Blossom

This is only true if the font is set in each styles it will show regardless. This isn't Amazon fault but the publisher who incorrectly coded the book. With the new updates each book now works like they do on eINK Kindles. You set the font in the main body style and you can turn it on or off at will. So books finally work correctly on the New Kindle Fires and the Android app. The Old Kindle Fires still have to do it the old way to get it to work.

You no longer have to put font-family in every style just the main style if you own this year's Kindle Fires or use Kindle For Android.

I'm talking about PERSONAL DOCS, not Amazon books.

I don't think so, at least not in my experience. See the code I put in the CSS below. The embedded font will ALWAYS display in Android app and NEVER display in iOS app, regardless of that option setting.

@font-face {
  font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url("../Fonts/Caecilia-Heavy.otf");
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy";
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url("../Fonts/Caecilia-HeavyItalic.otf");
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url("../Fonts/Caecilia-Heavy.otf");
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy";
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url("../Fonts/Caecilia-HeavyItalic.otf");
}

body { font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy"; }

I've even tried this to get it to work in iOS app, but nothing seems to work.

* { font-family: "CaeciliaHeavy"; }

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I'm talking about PERSONAL DOCS, not Amazon books.

I don't think so, at least not in my experience. See the code I put in the CSS below. The embedded font will ALWAYS display in Android app and NEVER display in iOS app, regardless of that option setting.

I was talking about sideloaded books not Amazon books. I've yet to get KF8 book delivered in a PDoc.

Originally Posted by Blossom

I was talking about sideloaded books not Amazon books. I've yet to get KF8 book delivered in a PDoc.

I never sideload docs because they cannot be synced, and syncing between devices is very important to me. I modify my Amazon books via Sigil, then use the Send To Kindle app on my Mac to place the PDocs in the Cloud. It really sucks if Amazon has this option working on sideloaded docs but not on Cloud items.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I was talking about sideloaded books not Amazon books. I've yet to get KF8 book delivered in a PDoc.

Try the sample KF8 files. They should work.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Try the sample KF8 files. They should work.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511

Nope. It's my account I think Amazon hasn't upgraded me yet.

Originally Posted by Blossom

Nope. It's my account I think Amazon hasn't upgraded me yet.

I misunderstood what you said. I thought you meant you hadn't wanted to DL a KF8 PDoc. Oh wow, so Amazon won't let you DL them? Sounds like another call to CS. Amazon needs to install a hot line in your home directly to their top tier CS, kind of like the red line between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War!

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I misunderstood what you said. I thought you meant you hadn't wanted to DL a KF8 PDoc. Oh wow, so Amazon won't let you DL them? Sounds like another call to CS. Amazon needs to install a hot line in your home directly to their top tier CS, kind of like the red line between the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War!

I've had my account for a very long time long before the days of Kindle so I am thinking they forgot to upgrade it. I'm probably on one of their ancient servers too.

Any KF8 I send is converted to old Mobi when it arrives.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Actually the New Kindle Fires now have this feature. I've been reconverting all my books to work with it. It works great if use Calibre to embed the fonts and you no longer have to add the font to every style in the stylesheet. Only to the body style and Calibre does this automatically.

It sounds like the book publisher forgot to embed the fonts and just added it to the CSS.

I just tested it in Kindle app and it works great too.

Ah yes. I was looking for the Publisher Font at the bottom of the Font list, but it is at the top where I never thought to scroll. If I used the Android app more I might investigate embedded fonts more. On the Fire, the available choices are fine, except when you can't change the font because of publisher 'malpractice'.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Ah yes. I was looking for the Publisher Font at the bottom of the Font list, but it is at the top where I never thought to scroll. If I used the Android app more I might investigate embedded fonts more. On the Fire, the available choices are fine, except when you can't change the font because of publisher 'malpractice'.

Publisher Malpractice! I love that! I use a specific font in all my books Lucinda is the only font I can tolerate that is dark enough for me but I prefer a dark and solid font to read with.

[tomsem]

So the Talkback support in the update lets you access a TTS-ish experience (some of this might have been there before). Unfortunately Amazon does not seem to provide a walk-through of accessibility features as they do for iOS. I'm starting to get the hang of it, though.

My top wish list feature for the Android app (same for iOS) would be to add support for navigational table of contents. I don't know how you can ship a reading app without this feature in 2013 but Amazon still manages to do so.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by tomsem

My top wish list feature for the Android app (same for iOS) would be to add support for navigational table of contents. I don't know how you can ship a reading app without this feature in 2013 but Amazon still manages to do so.

Oh my Yes I wish it had that too! It still works like the old Kindles.

[HippieWiccan]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Yes! It's a bug. It only happens if you touch the manual sync button on the app. If it auto syncs it stays at 250MB any only goes up 1MB if you add a new book and so on which is totally normal.

I have been looking for a solution to this problem for YEARS! Mine goes over 6Gb which is madness!!!

I just cleared it and am reloading. I will avoid the manual sync button at all costs and see if that works!

[patrickt]

Did resurrecting a 6-year old thread help?

I have a Huawei p30 pro. I have Amazon Kindle app 8.24.1.0. I have no books downloaded.

Storage shows:
Total 364 MB
App 164 MB
Data 201 MB
Cache 0