Koreader / Kindle renders so different

[pcace]

hi there,

i am very new to Kindles and especially to Koreader on Kindle.
I installed koreader because i realy like the simplicity and freedom to handle ebooks.
BUT: for now i am really annoyed by how koreader renders my ebooks. the original kindle software seems to render books much much better (looking) then koreader.
attached an example.
Is for now i have my books in calibre and then convert them to *.mobi and send them to the kindle. The attached screenshots come from exactly the same file on the device.

is there any way to have koreader render books like the kindle? Is this a settings thing? or conversion? Is there a prefered filetype / setting?

thank you so much,

cheers
pcace

[mergen3107]

By "render" you mean the font quality or the layout?
The fonts are tweaked in the bottom meanu (kerning, hinting, etc).

The layout is dictated by css Style Tweaks (Top menu).

[mergen3107]

Also, if you convert books to .epub, try the bottom menu's far right tab and enable "Embedded Style" - this will enable css set by the publisher

[pcace]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

By "render" you mean the font quality or the layout?
The fonts are tweaked in the bottom meanu (kerning, hinting, etc).

The layout is dictated by css Style Tweaks (Top menu).

hi there, sorry that question was kind of misleading. i mean the styling / layout of the text.

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Also, if you convert books to .epub, try the bottom menu's far right tab and enable "Embedded Style" - this will enable css set by the publisher

thanks for that hint!i have tried that again, using a epub i bought. the result still does not look like the kindle version (wich looks like the physical book - i have that too...)

attached is the "embedded style" version (compare with the one from first post..). the epub is directly from the publisher, not converted by me.

Is that normal? or do i still miss some setting to achieve the same results?

Thanks again for help!!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pcace

hi there,

i am very new to Kindles and especially to Koreader on Kindle.
I installed koreader because i realy like the simplicity and freedom to handle ebooks.
BUT: for now i am really annoyed by how koreader renders my ebooks. the original kindle software seems to render books much much better (looking) then koreader.
attached an example.
Is for now i have my books in calibre and then convert them to *.mobi and send them to the kindle. The attached screenshots come from exactly the same file on the device.

is there any way to have koreader render books like the kindle? Is this a settings thing? or conversion? Is there a prefered filetype / setting?

thank you so much,

cheers
pcace

You should stop sending mobi as it's going away. You will be sending ePub to be converted to KF8.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pcace

hi there, sorry that question was kind of misleading. i mean the styling / layout of the text.




thanks for that hint!i have tried that again, using a epub i bought. the result still does not look like the kindle version (wich looks like the physical book - i have that too...)

attached is the "embedded style" version (compare with the one from first post..). the epub is directly from the publisher, not converted by me.

Is that normal? or do i still miss some setting to achieve the same results?

Thanks again for help!!

The difference is that the Kindle has larger line height. You would have to increase the line height in KOReader to get it to be similar.

[pcace]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The difference is that the Kindle has larger line height. You would have to increase the line height in KOReader to get it to be similar.

Thanks for your reply! so that means i would "tune" every book i want to read with koreader?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pcace

Thanks for your reply! so that means i would "tune" every book i want to read with koreader?

It means that if you want a similar look to the Kindle, you'll want to set the default line height in KOReader to be similar.

[mergen3107]

Try changing the style to HTML5 first:
Top Menu -> 2nd tab -> Style -> HTML5, see if it helps.

Details here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ent-1272568806

[NiLuJe]

Keep in mind that CRe's support of MOBI is *extremely* basic. My usual recommendation is to stay the hell away from those and throw proper ePubs at it instead .

[mbrisco]

Originally Posted by pcace

Thanks for your reply! so that means i would "tune" every book i want to read with koreader?

You can tune it once on a book by setting the line height and then long pressing the line height setting block and choosing “Set as default” on the popup. This will set the default line height on any new book you open afterwards. But it won’t change the line height for books you’ve already opened before; you have to change their line heights by hand, or go to the document menu at the top and do “Reset document settings to default” for those.