04-21-2022, 12:27 PM | #16 |
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I've just opened a free .epub and .mobile book from Project Gutenberg in Calibre and with the built-in viewer the line spacing is fairly large.
So perhaps it isn't the Kindle/Kindle apps that cause the spacing issues, rather it is the underlying .mobi/.epub file? geojson format |
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04-21-2022, 01:31 PM | #18 |
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I've since sorted the line spacing in Calibre by adjusting the line height setting.
Still trying to work out how to make the mobi file when it reaches the kindle to have the proper line spacing like it does with purchased books. |
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I remove line height settings for all body styles; you can then use the ereader GUI to set whatever line spacing suits.
But I only ever used "Send to Kindle" years ago to test. It's a stupid & broken idea. The Kindles, Kobo, Mars, Sony get the ebooks via USB and often enough charge that way. Also Amazon is getting a copy when you "Send to Kindle" which isn't ever neeeded if you bought the book from Amazon. But actually I don't use WiFi to get books off Amazon. I have backups on Laptop etc. I'm not dependent on the internet except to initially buy ebooks or gutenberg downloads. I've no need to "sync" either. A few words in search is faster than connecting two ereaders to someone else's server on the Internet and doing two syncs. With NO line height for any body style you can use the GUI to set whatever line spacing suits. Also only use old mobi for firmware older than 3.x.x |
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There is a third reflowable renderer for KF8 (AZW3) format, which produces different results from the other two. You could email a Master MOBI produced using Amazon's Kindle Previewer - not calibre - and that will give you KF8 on your Kindle but will still use MOBI on your iOS device. (KF8 is not supported by Kindle for iOS.) Reading position, notes, and annotations will sync between the Kindle and iOS app even though the formats are not the same, but you would lose the cover thumbnail image of the book on your Kindle. Your choice of font will also affect the line spacing differently across renderers. That is just the way it is on the Kindle platform. Either emailing or sideloading a MOBI will yield the same rendering. |
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But my point is, he was able to sideload that mobi (dual, what we called KF8 .mobi) to his own Kindle and 'see' his desired line-heights without any trouble. That's why he was convinced that we were incompetent--after all, his other formatter "got it right." (sigh). Hitch |
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So--if I understand you--you're saying that if you create a 1.0em-line-height mobi file and either a) email it to your own Kindle email account, or b) sideload it via USB or c) sideload it via WiFi like Doubloo (sp?), all of those will honor the 1.0em,and not automagically convert to the 1.2em? Really? I could have sworn that somewhere in time, I saw an emailed file (via PDoc) change, but crap, now I'm going to have to test it the next time I have time. Hitch |
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To demonstrate the issue of differing line spacing across Kindle formats I created an EPUB with large paragraphs of nonsense text. I used no styling so that the default line spacing would apply. I converted it to MOBI, KF8, and KFX formats for testing.
I side loaded the three formats via USB to my Oasis 2 running the latest firmware 5.14.3.0.1. The display settings were font size 7, no boldness, narrow margins, and medium line spacing. Selecting the various built-in fonts yielded a different number of lines of text per screen depending on the font and format, mostly reflecting different line spacing on the screen. For KFX format there were always 18 lines displayed regardless of the font chosen. For KF8 most fonts also yielded 18 lines, however there were 19 shown when Helvetica was selected as the font. MOBI showed more variation with either 22 or 24 lines displayed depending on the font chosen. The results for the Helvetica font are shown in the attached image. They are from left to right: MOBI, KF8, and KFX. |
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