Born2Root
Half working with imported ebook on kindle
Hello,
I have a kindle Oasis 10th Generation, firmware 5.17 I've managed to use the fonts for books I have officially bought from Amazon
However for those I have imported without DRM I ran into some issue.
I found out that by editing the CSS code with Calibre I've been able to force the change of font.
How I did it : by commenting all the lines that include a font-family.
Exemple : /* font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; */
However it still doesn't fully work. The font does change (I can clearly see the difference with the Fast Mono) but the bold part is not there.
I also only imported the 4 .TFF version to test and force it in the css, but it doesn't work.
I'm out of ideas.
(At least it works on purchased books which is already great !)
Yes, what you describe is unfortunately a known problem with the Kindle eReaders. They behave quite different, depending on the model.
There is still an ultimate sledge-hammer solution 😄
That means you do not directly use the font, what would be the most elegant way. Instead you can "hardcode" the speed-read formatting into the eBooks.
One user wrote a little python script to apply the fast-reading feature directly in Calibre. Until now that worked for all devices that made problems...
Here is the link to the script repo. https://github.com/giutala/calibre_bionic_converter
