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Originally Posted by omk3
I generally can read anything if it is well written enough, and not really think about any of this. Most people don't even realize what kind of quotes there are in the text - but you are right: everyone does realize that a book looks "nicer" and more professional, hence more inviting, when all these little details have been taken care of.
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Yep, that's it in a nutshell. Professional typography is unnoticeable in the details, but makes the overall document look so nice that it draws your eye to the next and makes you just
want to start reading. Epub has a long way to go to achieve that goal, since to those of us who enjoy the look and feel of a well-typeset book, reading epub is so annoying it ruins the experience.
There is a book that one of our MR members spent a lot of time to put together,
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. You can find it in the uploads. It is just about the best that can be done with epub at the moment, and it is certainly well done and more than acceptable to most people reading on an ereader. I found it amusing how many of the people who get on threads like this and say things like "just read the book," or "you need to go back to print, dude," as if good typography doesn't matter in the least to them, were the same people gushing over how good the epub version of
Three Men in a Boat looks, what a nice job Zelda did in putting it together so well, etc., so good typography does indeed matter to even the silly people here who try so hard to insist that it doesn't.