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Is it possible to emulate the firmware of ereader devices?

I'd like to know if it is possible to emulate the firmware of the various available ereader devices, and run them from a personal computer. I'd like to know this mainly to try and compare them and see all of their features in action. NOTE: My…
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How to auto-left justify text in personal kindle documents

I use the 'Send to Kindle' for Google Chrome extension to send longform articles to my Kindle. It works great, except that it seems to force justify text flush both left and right. I have a vision problem and read at the largest text size, which…
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Ereader that won't blur pdfs

I have the 2015 Kindle Wi-fi Touch. It's great, although when I try to read PDFs on it, it blurs them. I don't have a problem with small fonts, and I realise that ereaders are never going to be optimal for PDFs. But is there an ereader that, at…
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Kindle highlights not syncing between devices

I have the Kindle app on my iPhone and iPad. When I go into a book on the iPad and add a highlight I never see it appear on the same book on my iPhone, even if I press the sync item from the side menu on the iPhone.
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Any way to keep captions of the images always with the image?

I have written a book in Microsoft Word with a lot of images. But I am facing issues that the titles that I have given are going in the next page. I understand I can resize the images but I wanted to tie the captions with the image. Even if I…
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CSS: display: none - Is it supported by all devices?

Does anyone here know if the CSS property display: none is supported by all ereaders? Let me explain why I'm asking... I'm turning a 500-page book that's in the public domain into an ebook. The index is 40 pages of fine print. Now that I've finished…
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Are there libraries which lend ebooks to non residents?

Here in Italy we have MediaLibraryOnLine which lends ebooks after someone physically go to a library and subscribes to the (free) service. But unfortunately they have not a lot of books in English. Is there any (legal) way to subscribe to such a…
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How can I read my epub books on the kobo app on my computer?

I have an e-reader (Kobo Touch) where I have downloaded my ebooks in epub format. How can I read those books on the Kobo desktop app?
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Can I split chapters with CSS?

I'm learning to create epubs with InDesign. If you want a particular element inside a chapter (e.g. a subheading) to appear at the top of the next page, you can assign it a CSS style that has been designated for that purpose. However, the CSS is…
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Automating Footnote Links

I'm working with Dreamweaver, InDesign and BBEdit, so a solution that works with any of these programs would be great. I'm converting a book that's in the public domain to an ebook. Each chapter has a series of superscript numbers that reference…
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Should every paragraph tag have a CSS style (InDesign)?

I'm working on my first epub, and I would like to use the following CSS scheme: Most paragraph tags would have no class assigned and would be styled by a simple rule in the style sheet... p {} A special series of paragraph tags would have a…
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Track Pages Per Day on Kindle

I was curious if I can track the pages read per day on a Kindle. The two options I've found have not been updated in years: 1) This StackExchange answer utilizing Amazon's FreeTime 2) This GitHub repo that involves jailbreaking a Kindle (which I am…
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My Amazon book does not have links from ToC to chapters, why?

I recently wrote a book. The book is published. When I looked over the result, I found out that the Table of Contents does not have links going to the individual chapters (and sections within chapters.) This is really annoying. The work was…
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Table headings that may repeat for several "pages"

I'm writing with Sigil an ebook with several tables, different sizes and extensions. Is there a code in HTML or CSS to have table headings row to repeat thru several "pages" (depending on how big is the font, the more or less pages there will be…
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What kind of k2pdfopt optimizations should I be using for these sample pages of a PDF?

I have a bunch of PDF files that follow this kind of layout: When I use k2pdfopt with options -dev kp3 -fc -j -1 -jf -1 0.75 -n- -wrap -hy -ws -0.2, I get this: As you can see the text gets mangled when I go for 'fit to single column'. Am…
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