The background of a epub book on kindle is a grey color that makes it annoying to read the book

[thewhitetulip]

The problem is that for each paragraph page we are having a grayish background color that makes it really ugly to read books. I looked over the internet and certain people have found out a work around - to remove the background colour property. Hence I thought of raising this bug and doing a code fix myself. Even for my novel that I am generating via pandoc I have to give a custom css just for removing the background colour.

Pandoc version?

this applies to all pandoc version because the issue is in the style.css in the data folder.

[thewhitetulip]

This is fixed in #10264

There are a bunch of other formatting issues, will submit a PR if you are open to accepting it.

[tarleb]

Could you say a bit more about the effect of this? A link to the resources you mentioned would be quite useful.

[thewhitetulip]

If you look at this image, we get a grey box in the background due to the link that I removed.

[thewhitetulip]

Will you be open to merging this? Also the default css stylesheet makes the epub book almost unreadable on Kindle. I use KOREADER. I was planning to edit the css file so that the default epub looks pretty

[jgm]

I agree that this looks bad, and in view of that removing the default background color in the CSS seems a good idea. People can always add it if they want it. But we shouldn't have default CSS that looks bad on the most popular e-reader. (Note: my understanding is that the Kindle converts EPUBs to its own native format, and perhaps there is a problem in that conversion, but it really doesn't matter for our purposes if that's where the problem lies.)

[thewhitetulip]

Yep. What happens is the epub generated by pandoc is giving a really bad styling the to book. Amazon converts epub to azw3 format and the default css mattwrs quite a bit.

I have seen that for android or Linux ebook readers this doesn't matter because they outright ignore the css 😂

If you are willing to accept another PR. I would love to send one by doing some R&D on a decent default css that would be great to read on Kindle.

[tarleb]

PRs are always welcome, especially when accompanied by some docs and/or an explanation of why it is needed.

Thank you for your contribution!

[thewhitetulip]

Nice! Let me find some time and I'll try to enhance the default formatting on Kindle.

Also foes without saying that this is the power of open source software!