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Hyphenation support appears to be added via
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body { -epub-hyphens:auto; -webkit-hyphens:auto; } I'd like to see the Bookerly font as well. It is rather nice. |
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It's one thing to say that your personal preference would be to have more fonts and font settings; it's quite another to say that it "needs" to have them. Can you explain why you feel that the Kindle needs to have these things, as opposed to it being your preference that it have them? Do you think that it's not a commercially successful device without them?
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A more interesting upgrade for the Fire HDX to 4.5.4 is that the Fire can be really charging when viewing youtube.
After the 4.5.4 upgrade, I viewed a couple of youtube "videos" & after getting out of youtube, the battery showed 80% as it was 69% prior to youtube. The thing is that the videos were 2 of Haydn's Piano Trios in a videoed live performance; so don't know if the increase in battery charge was because of not much "action"..... |
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How about updating the fire tablets to have collections? Let's work on that.
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Have you ever seen a document typeset by LaTeX, and then compared it with a similar document typeset using the default styles in Word (or any other word processor for that matter)? A LaTeX document is a thing of beauty, ready to be bound in a hardcover to look professional. A Word document, at least, in the default formatting that most people seem to use, is only fit to have a staple slammed through its upper left corner. That is the feeling I get when comparing an e-reader to a real book, but the advantages outweigh this one disadvantage. I was hoping the Kobo readers would do a better job, but I don't know if I should try, as Kobo seems intent on using their own wacky KEPUB format, which is only badly/intermittently supported in Calibre now, because the person maintaining it has (almost) stopped doing so. |
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(And still, IMHO, an e-reader/e-book stands to a physical book like a player/mp3's stand to a physical CD. In the latter case, both versions are music albums, in the former case they are both written stories.) |
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That analogy doesn't quite fly; most digital music files are a degraded version of the original CD which itself is an imperfect capture of the original performance. Book sniffers aside, ebooks do carry the full scope of the original narrative. ![]() |
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Substitute a lossless audiophile grade digital format for mp3 and studio produced music created for recording, as some artists make, and it amounts to the same thing. Plus, sometimes ebooks do make compromises on layout and typography, which may be important to the communication (e.g. in some forms of poetry, etc.) and you have you equivalent of mp3 loss. |
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First, my music collection is lossless FLAC (I used MP3 because many people don't know what FLAC is), and second, most e-books I have don't come near the 'real book' regarding formatting, and especially, if available, illustrations. I, for one, count these things as part of the book. It's much easier to create a digital representation of a CD (use FLACs, fill in metadata, and use high resolution cover art) than it is to create a digital representation of a book. Metadata, and high res covers/illustrations can be done quite easily actually, but text accuracy, formatting and typesetting are often neglected. And then, when converting, the conversion will not be lossless. Converting from format to format might mess up the book beyond recognition, while converting music from one lossless format to another will normally be perfect. Last edited by Katsunami; 06-03-2015 at 09:21 AM. |
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I'm glad I got over that "real book" dogma long ago. Much easier to enjoy the books when I don't have to waste energy convincing myself that things that clearly don't really bother me, do.
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