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Old 02-15-2013, 03:17 AM   #138
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Originally Posted by CazMar View Post
I totally agree about the poor presentation and formatting. If I bought a cake from a very expensive patisserie I would expect it to come in a nice box and be made correctly, if I buy home-made scones from a church fete I don't mind them being on a paper plate covered in cling wrap. It's not that I need perfect formatting and pretty covers, but that is what I paid for!

Authors should insist on this when they get their books sold as ebooks - write it into your publishing contract.
Exactly, i'm feeling ripped off when i see bad formating, or bad code.

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Originally Posted by cfrizz View Post
I feel sorry for all of you obsessive compulsive people. Me I'm focused on the story not the formatting, and so long as not every other word is misspelled, I don't pay any attention to that either.

I went for too many years not reading books because it simply became too uncomfortable, so I'm not going to let things like formatting and spelling stop me from reading a story I know that I will like.
Trouble is, bad code or bad formating will affect reading. Way too large margins, and others stuff.
Worse case i saw was a book so full of extra line jumps you couldn't make sense of the text.
And one where the css caused the cybook to be horribly slow.

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