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View Poll Results: Justified text in e-books? | |||
Prefer not Justified (left aligned only) | 20 | 43.48% | |
Prefer Justified (full justification) | 21 | 45.65% | |
Don't care | 5 | 10.87% | |
Voters: 46. You may not vote on this poll |
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02-02-2013, 11:18 PM | #16 | ||
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lol - That's awesome!! I'm that way in everything else...can't stand when things aren't lined up or centered just right...but not in my books...I guess I'm weirder than I already thought!
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02-03-2013, 01:33 AM | #18 |
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I checked out two different ebooks today, just to see the difference between justified and not-justified on my 6" Kindle. Man...those ragged edges just hurt me so much in a very deep and very personal way. I don't like the way it looks at all. Give me an aligned letters on the right side, I don't care how much space there has to be between each word!
That's what I'd like to say, anyway, but the ebook without justification had something even worse: added white space between each paragraph. Good Lord Almighty, just looking at that for a minute made me want to puke my guts out. And unfortunately, that was a book I wanted to read! |
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02-03-2013, 06:13 AM | #20 |
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Duplicate threads (started by different members, I will emphasize) are sometimes allowed on MobileRead.
It could be argued that authors/publishers may have a different slant on a given issue. For that reason, we have decided to leave this thread open. Don (Moderator) |
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02-03-2013, 06:52 AM | #21 |
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Left justification, no hyphenation!
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02-03-2013, 08:44 AM | #22 |
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Thanks Don. I'll try not to make a habit of it.
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What does "don't care" really and I mean really, really mean for a reader, for a writer?
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02-04-2013, 09:48 AM | #24 | |
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If such people were to write a book they might not even think about whether to justify or not - and so would end up with whatever defaults were applied in the software they used. That is (at least one version of) "don't care" for writers. * I must add a qualifier here. Just because a person doesn't notice something doesn't always mean they don't care. If they've never see the version they didn't like they may never have had reason to know whether they care or not. |
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gmw,
this has been already been covered in part, but to restate it somewhat, I say that sometimes a "laissez faire" point of view is best where you do what is easy and simple and don't waste energy struggling against a system. It is the story and the telling that is important, is most important, and indeed all that is important. |
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Something that gets reinforced from surveys such as this one is that you can't please everyone, but what this one (and Jon's) does tell us is that the split is close enough to 50-50 that a writer's choice probably doesn't matter. Had it turned significantly one way or another, then that could have been important information for writers that preferred the alternative. Reading the posts that go with these surveys, my guess is that whichever option you pick you are probably going to offend somewhere around 25% of readers, delight around 25% and make little difference to the other 50%. (Although obviously our statistical sample is too small for those figures to be anywhere near accurate.) But I do agree with what I think is the sentiment expressed in your post. Spending excessive time worrying over the minutiae is not a good thing (and you know me well enough by now to know that I do* ). The minutiae can be important, but it shouldn't be blown out of perspective either. * I think it's a form of procrastination. |
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This topic shows up every few months, and the results are always the same: some people adamantly prefer one, about an equal number adamantly prefer the other, and the majority shrug and say "whatever." I think it's good to keep checking; if ebook technology changes, we may see a noticeable shift in preferences. But for now, what I get from the surveys is "just go with whatever you like; it's not going to make a noticeable difference in public reaction or sales." |
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02-05-2013, 06:55 PM | #28 |
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This. No matter what you do, someone will complain... but most just want a good story to read. So long as what you do does not prevent/hinder that, they will not care. That is my personal experience, and it seem to hold true in many more areas then just books... |
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We all have things we are picky about.
Mine are TV series, and Movies that become unrealistic just to satisfy some directors or producers whim. There are also those films that just change something and never go back and re-shoot the connector. YOU CAN'T DO GOOD WORK WHILE HIGH! (not referring to magic or supernatural here) |
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Justified, but I wish devices would do a better job of (including) spacing of letters instead of having huge canyons between words.
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