Kindle touch and color in e-books

kindleuser · 01-20-2012, 08:53 PM

I was trying to troubleshoot why some books had much lighter text than others on my Kindle touch. I decided to convert the .mobi files with Calbre but stripped out the font and color in "Look and Feel" -> Filter Style information. Magically, the text became much darker and clearer to read.

Has anybody seen this behavior?

Thanks,
MT

kovidgoyal · 01-20-2012, 09:39 PM

Open your boks in the calibre viewer and you will see the text is colored. The kindle renders color as lighter shades of gray.

kindleuser · 01-21-2012, 07:49 AM

I checked it using that initially. However, the color was so close to black that you would not be able to tell on my laptop very easily.

I opened it again today and just discovered a really cool "Inspect" feature in the Calibre viewer. It told me that the text was using #231F20.

Thanks,
MT

01-20-2012, 08:53 PM	#1
kindleuser Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle	Kindle touch and color in e-books I was trying to troubleshoot why some books had much lighter text than others on my Kindle touch. I decided to convert the .mobi files with Calbre but stripped out the font and color in "Look and Feel" -> Filter Style information. Magically, the text became much darker and clearer to read. Has anybody seen this behavior? Thanks, MT

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01-20-2012, 09:39 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,156 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Open your boks in the calibre viewer and you will see the text is colored. The kindle renders color as lighter shades of gray.

01-21-2012, 07:49 AM	#3
kindleuser Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle	I checked it using that initially. However, the color was so close to black that you would not be able to tell on my laptop very easily. I opened it again today and just discovered a really cool "Inspect" feature in the Calibre viewer. It told me that the text was using #231F20. Thanks, MT

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