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On another note, I bought a faulty (?) epub which divided words in strange places and was very uncomf ortable (that's an example) to read. Off to calibre and now it is beautiful. |
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Removing that line lets you freely change all fonts so your reader displays your choice. There may be times you want to keep the original fonts, such as fancy chapter titles, for the publishing pages, etc. You could go through and pull out only those for the main body of text, but it usually takes too much time sorting out all the references, especially when you have a stylesheet with 100 different styles referenced. |
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It's a matter of choice. But the first thing I always do is remove all embedded fonts. No one but me and my eyes can tell me what's a comfortable font for me to read, and forcing their choice on me isn't going to work. If I scan a book, I never embed or even specify font choices for the main body of text. I do often for the pages like the TOC, publishing, etc., but never for the main body. While I love my font choice, I'd never force it on anyone else realizing everyone's preference will be different. |
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I do fully understand your reasoning for removing embedded fonts. Sometimes I do find the main font used is too thin and I either replace it with a thicker version (If I have such), modify it to add weight or change it. I prefer not to change it if I don't have to if I can get it to work. |
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I recently had a library book that was 1.8 mb - this was a standard fiction book, no longer than any of the other books I usually read, no photos. It was really annoying because it took a long time to open and page turns were slow.
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Those books are sadly not in English. But here is a screenshot I took of my online library with 3 types available to download plus where I underlined "watermark" for mobi (epub is DRMed from what I saw) the site is empik.com. They do have international catalogue in English and German but I think only on paper. |
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No, it's not hypocritical. If a publisher wants to have some kind of drm he can't do otherwise. Outside Amazon, he can't sell a mobi book with drm, even if he would like so.
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Most of the books I buy from them are watermarked regardless of format. |
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