08-19-2010, 10:47 AM | #1 |
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Pet E-book peeves
Mine is that due to page breaks, sometimes when you turn a page there is a single word on the top of the page. I believe in printing they talk about widows and bastards, and they are a no-no. In electronic publishing, are they unavoidable?
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08-19-2010, 10:58 AM | #2 |
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There is no reason for them to be "unavoidable"-- if someone cared to, the software could be written to look out for that problem and slightly tweak the text to keep that from happening. Whether or not anyone will ever do that is another question.
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08-19-2010, 11:48 AM | #3 |
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The difference is printed books can be tweaked by hand (and an author can even choose a different wording) to avoid widows and orphans (not bastards). The book will typically be printed in a single size, so it can be crafted as carefully as needed. With ebooks, the final "page" could be any size, as can the font, linespacing, etc. so it is impossible to desing the "perfect page". Instead, we have to rely on automatic algorithms to typeset the pages, and sadly current renderers use very simplistic ones. But this is something that should be dealt with by the reading software, not by the book creator.
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08-19-2010, 12:51 PM | #4 |
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Orphans, right!
Couldn't remember it when writing. |
08-19-2010, 01:09 PM | #5 |
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Mine is, while reading my Sony e-readers how often I hear "is that a Kindle? No? Oh, an iPad then?" I suppose my peeve is aimed at Sony's weak advertising, lol.
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08-19-2010, 02:45 PM | #6 |
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I have two pet peeves for eBook readers:
They're not big enough pet peeves to be a threat to them, but it is only a matter of time before someone builds a ruggedized eBook reader. One that sacrifices compactness and lightness for impact resistance. There is a similar movement going on right now for compact digital cameras. Olympus makes the Stylus Tough series, Pentax has their own series too. They have rubber bumpers and sealed enclosures. Or maybe just a ruggedized hard case for the original devices, like they have for using regular cameras underwater... |
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08-19-2010, 03:11 PM | #9 |
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"But paper smells better!"
There, I've said it. No, really, I've no real pet peeves. Maybe for PDFs, but I've got the right reader for those pesky little characters too now. (No, reflow isn't the best solution of they put data like title or author in the margin; yes, I know that PDFs aren't technically ebooks) Last edited by Juliette; 08-19-2010 at 03:17 PM. |
08-19-2010, 03:46 PM | #10 |
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My pet e-book hates baths (it refuses to be read afterward) and I haven't been able to leash train it. Heck, I can't get it out of the reader long enough to snap a leash on it.
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08-19-2010, 04:43 PM | #11 |
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I think my pet peeve is that if you buy a book and don't feel you would want to read it again after reading once, you can't resell and recoup a bit of the cost.
That's how I used to pay for my reading hobby... guess I'll have to think of other ways, now. Fortunately, I never have spent tons, mostly used my library. |
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08-19-2010, 04:55 PM | #13 |
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If you had a reader that used ePub via ADE, you'd have widows and orphans on by default and it works. The Kindle does not have windows and orphans. So dumping your Kindle and getting a different reader would sort out your pet peeve.
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08-19-2010, 05:13 PM | #14 |
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Some of these things are hard to research before purchase. Don't think I've seen that in any comparison chart.
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08-20-2010, 06:17 AM | #15 |
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