Kindle App formatting stinks

tweety · 07-19-2015, 04:14 PM

I don't mind the look of the Kindle app on the phone or even iPad.

But the Kindle app on the FireHD stinks, I mean the look of the pages; paragraph spacing etc. I've adjusted it as far as it will go and it still stinks.

tomsem · 07-21-2015, 01:24 AM

The iOS app had an update a couple of months ago to improve the typography. Everything else looks like crap now by comparison. Depending on which FireHD you have, they will be updating that as well, as with currently shipping Kindles (and PW2). They say at http://www.amazon.com/b?_encoding=UTF8&node=11516960011 that 'Fire tablets' have this feature (last two generations do have Bookerly font and one sees the occasional book with hyphenation), but I don't think they are done yet. Still seeing a lot of line spacing and margin variation that doesn't happen on iPad.

They are also updating the catalog of ebooks for further improvements, though it is not clear they'll complete that at any time soon. If you look at product listing for Kindle books on amazon.com (with desktop browser), some will show 'Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled'.

07-19-2015, 04:14 PM	#1
tweety Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 2016606 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Kindle Scribe	Kindle App formatting stinks I don't mind the look of the Kindle app on the phone or even iPad. But the Kindle app on the FireHD stinks, I mean the look of the pages; paragraph spacing etc. I've adjusted it as far as it will go and it still stinks.

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07-21-2015, 01:24 AM	#2
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,464 Karma: 25996225 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	The iOS app had an update a couple of months ago to improve the typography. Everything else looks like crap now by comparison. Depending on which FireHD you have, they will be updating that as well, as with currently shipping Kindles (and PW2). They say at http://www.amazon.com/b?_encoding=UTF8&node=11516960011 that 'Fire tablets' have this feature (last two generations do have Bookerly font and one sees the occasional book with hyphenation), but I don't think they are done yet. Still seeing a lot of line spacing and margin variation that doesn't happen on iPad. They are also updating the catalog of ebooks for further improvements, though it is not clear they'll complete that at any time soon. If you look at product listing for Kindle books on amazon.com (with desktop browser), some will show 'Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled'.

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