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1. Open an ebook (epub/mobi etc.) in the viewer. 2. Click the top or hit escape to show the menu and open up the preferences. My current settings are: - Colo
by Fluorescence 3y ago
1. Open an ebook (epub/mobi etc.) in the viewer.
2. Click the top or hit escape to show the menu and open up the preferences.
My current settings are:
- Colors: off-white background and dark grey text - I tend to pick these per device given different brightness / temperature of the display
- Page Layout: margins - left/right: 100px, top/bottom: 75px
- Fonts: I get Libre Baskerville from Google Fonts. I believe I choose a different font on Windows because each OS's rendering is slightly different. For me it's a matter of getting the font-weight just right so that it's not oppressive to the eye, distracting or hard to read but just right and it's a combination of the font, colour, size and how the OS renders. My goal is that it feels like the words on the page just fall into my eyes without effort.
- Style: This is where you can write css. (complaints about how bad my css is will fall on deaf ears!) The hack job I have on this machine is:
p
{
line-height: 1.5em !important;
font-size: 0.854em !important;
padding-bottom: 25px;
text-indent: 35.868px !important;
}
div
{
line-height:1.5em;
padding-top: 1em;
}
line-height: 1.5em;
- and then I just zoom-in with ctrl-mousewheel for a decent text size and to me it looks roughly the same as Apple Books.
Some ebooks have hardcoded styles that force ugly formatting. Fortunately Calibre lets you edit ebooks so you can just open them up and delete their custom css.
3. A few other things I remove are i) columns from the grid view like rating/publisher/series ii) categories on the left like language/format - I only use author/tags. Once you remove all the things you don't use, it's a neat minimal app.