4 or 5 updates ago, Amazon drastically bloated up their Kindle Reader for Android app by adding PDF support.
They also added something actually useful, line spacing and margin size settings. (I set it to smallest font, smallest spacing and zero margins to get the most text onscreen.)
Unfortunately they also added a nasty bug by breaking support for the older Mobipocket format. Books in that format open to a blank screen at position -1 of 1. Hasn't been fixed in the past 4 or 5 updates. I went back to the version just prior to the bug addition for a while, downloaded the latest "reduced size" version yesterday (which is still an 8.2 meg download) and the bug is still there.
What I'm wondering is if it might be possible to remove the PDF support and using the last version *without the bug* and hack together a smaller version that has the line spacing and margin size settings?
I'd put that on my phone, unlink it from Market with Titanium Backup then never update it again because it looks like Amazon is not planning to fix the bug.
I have a large number of old Mobipocket books which I used to have on Palm OS PDAs, and I don't want to have to find a way to modify them to work around Amazon being buggy.
They also added something actually useful, line spacing and margin size settings. (I set it to smallest font, smallest spacing and zero margins to get the most text onscreen.)
Unfortunately they also added a nasty bug by breaking support for the older Mobipocket format. Books in that format open to a blank screen at position -1 of 1. Hasn't been fixed in the past 4 or 5 updates. I went back to the version just prior to the bug addition for a while, downloaded the latest "reduced size" version yesterday (which is still an 8.2 meg download) and the bug is still there.
What I'm wondering is if it might be possible to remove the PDF support and using the last version *without the bug* and hack together a smaller version that has the line spacing and margin size settings?
I'd put that on my phone, unlink it from Market with Titanium Backup then never update it again because it looks like Amazon is not planning to fix the bug.
I have a large number of old Mobipocket books which I used to have on Palm OS PDAs, and I don't want to have to find a way to modify them to work around Amazon being buggy.
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