Different folks have different ideas about how they prfer their *content* to be presented. That is one of the strengths of ebooks that the publishers still don't get; they keep trying to pass off pretend-paper PDF as an ebook format or looking to turn ebooks into facsimiles of the print editions. It is wasted effort.
The best ebook readers devices and apps let the reader choose how they want the content presented. And yes, in this context, "presented" does include TTS.
I'm buying the story/article/essay/whatever, not a file and not a digital micro-fiche.
A good ebook is fully-proofed and spell-checked; it will feature proper typography (paragraph indents or outdents, em-dashes and matching quotes and apostrophes) and chapter breaks. Table of contents and hyperlinks as appropriate.
Beyond that, it should allow the reader to override whatever elements they choose; some folks prefered full justification, others left aligned; some prefer white space margins to control scan width, others want to use every last bit of display space; some prefer serif fonts, others sans-serif. All variants are right...for that specific person. Anything that breaks immersion is bad, everything that helps it is good.
Publishers need to get the basics right and then get out of the way. And they should stop trying to force paper formatting onto ebooks; readers shouldn't have to rebuild a book just to be able to read it as they want to read it. We're not buying digital microfiches or archival reproductions of a print edition; we are buying a story or an essay or whatever. We're buying the content not the packaging.
Because in the end, we really don't care about the smell.
