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Originally Posted by Hitch
...more of a "formatter, heal thyself" mindset, I suspect.
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Or perhaps, "formatter, format thyself"?
Yes, the Mighty Goog is omniscient. But I don't think you have to worry about Goog-wielding thought police :P
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Originally Posted by dgatwood
Kobo makes extensive changes, but if I'm remembering right, they're all in the realm of noise—adding extra spans to work around bugs in their rendering engine, adding extra attributes to make it easier to maintain reading position in the book, etc. Those sorts of trivial manipulation are about as safe as you can get; even if you make a million such changes, they won't affect the customer experience other than perhaps pushing up the download size slightly.
I mean yes, pedantically, what they deliver is not a checksum-identical copy of the book, and I wish it were, because it would make certain things easier. But that doesn't really compare with chopping out chunks of your stylesheet arbitrarily....  |
I would say it certainly compares. My experience with a Kepub and their wack rendering engine is that it eviscerated my book. Normal page-break CSS doesn't even work:
https://github.com/kobolabs/epub-spec/issues/18
To me, that's actually far worse than stripping out your embedded fonts.