Automated fix for smart quotes on Kindle books

mcandre · 12-15-2022, 12:57 AM

Kindle Paperwhite epic fails at rendering smartquotes and smart apostrophes, making books with any amount of quotations or possessive case difficult to read.

Publishing a shell script fix for this:

https://github.com/mcandre/nile

kovidgoyal · 12-15-2022, 02:01 AM

Just do an EPUB to EPUB conversion in calibre and it will take care of it. Or use the MOdify EPUB plugin to add the UTF-8 encoding definition to the EPUB files (amazons epub processing code incorrectly uses ISO-8859-1 as the fallback encoding when no encoding is specified).

12-15-2022, 12:57 AM	#1
mcandre Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 5000 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Kindle	Automated fix for smart quotes on Kindle books Kindle Paperwhite epic fails at rendering smartquotes and smart apostrophes, making books with any amount of quotations or possessive case difficult to read. Publishing a shell script fix for this: https://github.com/mcandre/nile

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12-15-2022, 02:01 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,185 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Just do an EPUB to EPUB conversion in calibre and it will take care of it. Or use the MOdify EPUB plugin to add the UTF-8 encoding definition to the EPUB files (amazons epub processing code incorrectly uses ISO-8859-1 as the fallback encoding when no encoding is specified).

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