Is there any way at all to use the Send To Kindle Email method with a Mobi file and have any control over the line spacing on the resulting file when it reaches the Kindle and the Kindle app on IOS?
I have a few epub files that I have converted to Mobi but when I send them via send to Kindle email, the gap/spacing between the lines is much more than a standard book.
Cloud sync is really important as I read in my Kindle and IOS devices.
All I want to do is reduce the line spacing. Is there any to do this whilst still being able to use the send to Kindle email method?
You might try taking the ePub, rename it to .txt, and email it to Kindle.
The .txt gets it through the type checks yet afterwards the ePub format is detected and converted.
httpshttps://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288964&page=6&highlight=Rename
Its no different unfortunately the line spacing is still really big.
It looks to me like any file that you email to your Kindle, The conversion process completely ignores the formatting.
Quote GnRFan79
Its no different unfortunately the line spacing is still really big.
It looks to me like any file that you email to your Kindle, The conversion process completely ignores the formatting.
KDP uses a standard 1.2em line-spacing. No matter what you send to Kindle, no matter what you email yourself, or sideload via Wired USB, you will get 1.2em line-heights.
Hitch
Quote Hitch
KDP uses a standard 1.2em line-spacing. No matter what you send to Kindle, no matter what you email yourself, or sideload via Wired USB, you will get 1.2em line-heights.
Hitch
There is a way to fix the line-spacing. But that requires a KF8 (AZW3) format eBook. If you use CareInk (font), it is set in the font's metadata to give a smaller line-space on a Kindle and so it reduces the 1.2em line space to something smaller.
I read my books on all my devices, which all stay in sync via the cloud.
I will just have to re-buy the books direct from Amazon.
Quote JSWolf
There is a way to fix the line-spacing. But that requires a KF8 (AZW3) format eBook. If you use CareInk (font), it is set in the font's metadata to give a smaller line-space on a Kindle and so it reduces the 1.2em line space to something smaller.
That's
only if you sideload, Jon, not if you use any of Amazon's typical tools for transport, right? The moment the file goes through the KDP processes of any kind, the 1.2em line-heights kick in.
Hitch
Quote Hitch
That's only if you sideload, Jon, not if you use any of Amazon's typical tools for transport, right? The moment the file goes through the KDP processes of any kind, the 1.2em line-heights kick in.
Hitch
As long as it's a KF8 format eBook, ChareInk will lower the 1.2em line height. It will not work for Mobi or KFX. I've tried it on a side loaded KFX.
Quote JSWolf
As long as it's a KF8 format eBook, ChareInk will lower the 1.2em line height. It will not work for Mobi or KFX. I've tried it on a side loaded KFX.
That's because you're sideloading it. If you're sideloading it, you can use pretty much any damned font and set the line-heights. ChareInk is moot.
The MOMENT the file is emailed to the Kindle address, or sent to the Kindle any other way that touches upon the KDP-verse, the line-heights change. He could use Times New Roman and set it to 1.0em if he wanted--as long as he sideloads. TTBOMK.
Hitch
I don’t think it would be a problem if I sideloaded the mobi files, but having reading progress synced across all my devices is more important to me.
