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Old 07-19-2010, 03:15 AM   #79
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Originally Posted by William Campbell View Post
I think ebooks should have no formatting. Leave that up to the reading device, which should offer all the choices.

An ebook should be comprised of chapters, passages, paragraphs, and sentences of words, nothing more. Let the device determine fonts, justification, spacing between lines, paragraphs and passage breaks, which the reader can adjust to their desired preference. Then every book could look completely different, but for one particular reader, every book would look exactly the same. The reading experience becomes transparent, allowing the reader to better indulge in the story, not how it "looks."
You have just described the FB2 e-book format.
On my reader the principal reading application is FBReader and this is how FBReader treats all formats it supports. It lets you to define all formating options. FBReader was originally developed to read FB2 format.
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