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Oasis, mobi, custom fonts oddities

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Before I get into details, let me note that I am using Windows 7 64bit,
so I am using Calibre 64bit V3.48, which is the last which supports Windows 7.

I recently got the new Oasis 10th gen, which is *very* beautiful. I installed a few custom TrueType fonts in the fonts directory, and they work great with azw3 and mobi books from Amazon.

However, I have many epub books from external sources, and have been using Calibre to convert them to mobi and transfer to my Oasis. Sadly, most of those .mobi files do *not* support custom fonts.

I also tried converting one of the files to azw3 ... this was an adventure!
If I convert from .epub to .azw3 directly, I cannot change fonts at all...
However, if I convert epub -> mobi, then mobi -> azw3, custom fonts *do* work. Line spacing is a little irregular for some reason, but I can live with it.

What I'm hoping to find, though, is some way to either make the .mobi files work (with custom fonts) as they do when I get them from Amazon.

So does anyone have any insights into how I might address this issue?

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