Differences Tolino & Kobo

[Flaviocc]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I also fix the formatting of all my ebooks. And that's the reason I want the reading app to follow the CSS - because it's already exactly the way I want it and I don't want the app to display the book any other way.

Can you share your CSS rules? And what you use to apply them?

No problem to send me via PM to not divert the topic.

Really appreciate .

Tks.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Flaviocc

Can you share your CSS rules? And what you use to apply them?

I would suspect either calibre or Sigil to apply them. The problem is that what I consider to be the perfect CSS stylesheet is unlikely to match anyonelse's idea of what a perfectly formatted ebook should look like. The best thing to do is to look at various examples of stylesheets and use what you like to create your own version of perfection.

[Flaviocc]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I would suspect either calibre or Sigil to apply them. The problem is that what I consider to be the perfect CSS stylesheet is unlikely to match anyonelse's idea of what a perfectly formatted ebook should look like. The best thing to do is to look at various examples of stylesheets and use what you like to create your own version of perfection.

Thank you.

Do you have a source where I can look at these styles.

I agree with you, about personal tastes.

I asked him to have a start point.

I'm used to use Sigil to remove all the CSS and them get a "pure"epub to Kindle deal with the file. But....I need a little tweak on line spacing and margins.

Thank you !

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Flaviocc

Thank you.

Do you have a source where I can look at these styles.

I agree with you, about personal tastes.

I asked him to have a start point.

I'm used to use Sigil to remove all the CSS and them get a "pure"epub to Kindle deal with the file. But....I need a little tweak on line spacing and margins.

As an example, here's part of the stylesheet I normally use. Most of the work is done in the body where I indulge my preference for left justified (ragged right) text. Change that to text-align: justified; if you prefer justified text. The p tag is the basic paragraph with subsequent paragraphs getting an indent. The dropcap code give a visibly larger bold look while not being so enthused that it dominates the page. The chapnumber is basically the chapter number. Bold, centered and not taking up half a page on my screen. There is quite a bit more but this is the basics for me.

body {
    display : block;
    font-size : 1em;
    line-height : 1.2;
    margin : 0 0 0 0;
    padding : 0 0 0 0;
    text-align : left;
    widows : 1;
    orphans : 1;
}
p  {
    padding : 0 0 0.2em 0;
    text-indent : 0;
}
.subsq {
    text-indent : 4%;
}
.chapnumber {
    font-size : 1.5em;
    margin-top : 2em;
    margin-bottom : 1.5em;
    page-break-after : avoid;
    text-align : center;
    font-weight : bold;
}
.dropcap {
    font-size : 1.5em;
    margin-top : -0.09em;
    font-weight : bold;
}

[Flaviocc]

David, thank you so much )

Now I have a starting point!!

Tks.


EDIT.:

@DNSB thank you again.

The body changes works here (what I want - the line spacing and margins).

The changes at the chapter didn't work here...I think it's something related to the ebook code.

Tks.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Flaviocc

David, thank you so much )

Now I have a starting point!!

Tks.


EDIT.:

@DNSB thank you again.

The body changes works here (what I want - the line spacing and margins).

The changes at the chapter didn't work here...I think it's something related to the ebook code.

Tks.

The difference is likely that the items with the '.' as the first part of the name are applied using class= (e.g. <h3 class="chapnumber">) whereas the body and p are applied to the tags. The first paragraph in a chapter gets <p> while the subsequent paragraphs get <p class="subsq">. A dropcap would be applied using something like: <p><span class="dropcap">L</span> for an example.

[Moonbase59]

Originally Posted by wdshieh

I read Chinese books. I know that tolino epos 2 and vision 5's system languages don't include Chinese. I am still in the hopes that some reading apps can display Chinese. The attachment is a Chinese ePub file I just made for test. Wish someone could try this in your tolino to see if any epub reading app can display Chinese correctly.

I myself made the epub file from scratch. It contains only two famous Chinese poems written 1200 years ago so I guess there should be no copyright issue.

Necromancing an old thread, I know, but this comes up top in Google and might still be of interest:

After lots of experimenting, I find that the Microsoft YaHei font family has the most complete set of glyphs (nearly 30,000!) for CJK display. It is included with Windows 7 and newer versions and can be copied via USB into the Tolino’s fonts folder. After unmounting the Tolino, the fonts will be detected, installed and available in the fonts menu as 微软雅黑.

wdshieh’s epub example renders as follows on my Tolino Vision 5:

[ottischwenk]

Before, the devices were pretty much identical - except for small case changes, OS and firmware.
This time, nothing is the same except for the screen and almost identical case.
Libra 2: 1 GHz - Single Core, 512 MB/32 GB - usual Kobo firmware.
Vision 6: 1.8 - GHz Quad Core, 1/16 GB - Android 8.1 - additional apps can be installed from within the system.

I get my Vision 6 on the 27th - then I can report further.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

Before, the devices were pretty much identical - except for small case changes, OS and firmware.
This time, nothing is the same except for the screen and almost identical case.

I'm guessing that, if the Libra 2 had the same new features as the Vision 6, you wouldn't be seeing a "Should I get a Libra H2O or Libra 2" thread. Quite honestly I'm surprised Kobo and Tolino diverged this much. Maybe the Epos 2 is the last of the Epos line?

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by rcentros

Quite honestly I'm surprised Kobo and Tolino diverged this much. Maybe the Epos 2 is the last of the Epos line?

I don't think so.
In the Vision 6 commercial you can see a picture with a device that has contacts like Kobo Sage on the side.
I assume the device will come out next spring.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

I don't think so.
In the Vision 6 commercial you can see a picture with a device that has contacts like Kobo Sage on the side.
I assume the device will come out next spring.

Glad to hear that. Though I sure can't see enough in the picture to see contacts.

Do you think there will ever be a Tolino Elipsa-like device?

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by rcentros

Glad to hear that. Though I sure can't see enough in the picture to see contacts.
Do you think there will ever be a Tolino Elipsa-like device?

I have edited part of the image in contrast and brightness.
No, I donot think, that a Elipsa-like device will come.

[rantanplan]

I wonder what would happen if you switched out the SD-Cards of the Libra 2 and Vision 6

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

I wonder what would happen if you switched out the SD-Cards of the Libra 2 and Vision 6

This will not be possible because there are none

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

This will not be possible because there are none

The second photo clearly shows the mentioned SD-Card in the Libra 2:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...78&postcount=1