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The original was posted on /r/rust by /u/ImpressiveHead69420 on 2024-11-04 13:37:09+00:00.

So I bought a kindle (Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 2024, thank you for asking) and naturally I wanted to be able to read the rust book on it. Simply saving the html version of the rust book as a pdf doesn’t work as you can’t scale things properly and the kindle simply has too small of a screen. But I was determined and I realized that these ebook file formats like epub and azw3 basically rely on html for the ebook to have a scaleable and modifiable experience. So I ctrl-s saved the printable format of the rust book and then used Calibre and added it to my computer library. Then I used it to upload the html to my kindle where it automatically converted it’s file type to AZW3 (what kindle uses). It worked however I wasn’t able to change the font size of the normal text. I thought this was strange and obviously a problem so I took a look at the CSS and found this:

.light {
    -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
    text-size-adjust: none;
    font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
    font-size: 0.625em;
}

Now I’m sure there’s some Calibre setting which can be used to strip the CSS of unwanted styling, however I don’t care. So I simply commented the parts out which were messing with it:

.light {
    /* -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; */
    /* text-size-adjust: none; */
    font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
    /* font-size: 0.625em; */
}

Saved it, then deleted the old file from my kindle and reuploaded it. Voilà, it worked perfectly. If you can’t be bothered to do it yourself I guess ask me because I can’t be bothered to upload it to dropbox or google drive.