03-23-2024, 05:11 PM | #136 |
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That's the purpose of my editing as well - I want to get lost in the book immediately, not start to fiddle with the settings right after opening a new book, or feel annoyed with the publisher's formatting choices when I should be enjoying the writing.
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03-23-2024, 05:55 PM | #137 |
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The font CareInk6SP helps a lot as it has a reduced size space. Using it, I have a lot less hyphens then I used to and the space between words is smaller. So even if you do not use hyphenation, you'll not get as may rivers of space.
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03-24-2024, 06:31 AM | #138 | |
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I personally have all my books as kepubs on my Libra 2. I just can't stand the sluggishness of epubs, and the impossibility to access any footnotes (please, just make them as big as the normal text! And pop ups.) in them. In case I run into problems with formatting I just switch to Koreader, fiddle with the settings until everything looks good and then get lost in the book (hopefully!). I also feel much more comfortable playing around with the settings in Koreader, as they are book specific and I don't have to worry about what will look good universally. |
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The fiddling happens once when I start reading and is something I can do rather quickly and then not think about it. My problem is introductions and forewords. For whatever reason I feel forced to read them and fear missing important information if I don't. When I finally make my way through, I'm so exhausted that I can't be bothered with the actual book. It can then take weeks before I get started on it. Luckily, other books exist to keep me entertained during that period. |
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Nonfiction is rare for me these days. I read more of it when I was younger, but I no longer have the patience. Now I prefer web articles, magazines and such for nonfiction, not books. As to classics and literary stuff, I did read quite a lot of it in my teens and twenties. Then I lost interest, for good it seems. Last edited by Sirtel; 03-24-2024 at 10:40 AM. |
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Another reason for KePub is that it's Kobo's DRM. So they don't have to pay Adobe for every eBook with DRM downloaded.
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Certainly Amazon used to use Adobe DRM and switched to their own to save money (before Kindle), but Kobo use of kepub is likelu more complicated. |
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It sounds like you'd save more time by editing your books before you read them. If you delete the introductions and forewords, then you won't feel compelled to read them anymore.
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I feel more stimulated and much better afterwards having read a classic or some other "highbrow" literature. So I try to fit that in whenever I can. On the other hand, I'm into language learning, so in the languages I'm studying I tend to read easier stuff. The added challenge of it being in a foreign language is plenty stimulating. That way I get the best of both worlds Quote:
That gave me an idea, however! Maybe I could just cut out all the introductions and forewords and save them as separate articles in wallabag and read them on the go. I generally don't opt for a book on public transport, for instance. Thanks for the inspiration! Last edited by kandwo; 03-25-2024 at 02:58 AM. |
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You're welcome. It amuses me that I have essentially the opposite compulsion: I assume that forewords and introductions contain spoilers, so I deliberately avoid reading them. Besides, I don't need some rando telling me how wonderful the book is before I've even read it. I'll decide whether it's a good book on my own, thank you very much.
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But you might miss something important if they are deleted. You don't know until they are read.
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I'd avoid reading any preface, introduction or foreword added by the publisher years after the novel was originally published until after I read the book.
Do read the Prologue as it's really Chapter 0. Some people skip it due to confusion with a preface. Sometimes there is "what has gone before" which usually can be skipped if you've read the earlier books in a series. The preface, introduction and foreword almost always can be skipped, especially if not by the author, but it's unwise to delete them as you might want them afterwards or on a second reading. |
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