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Originally Posted by karunaji
To make it official I now tell how appalled I am with the current state of e-book format rendering.
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Very tempting to quote your entire post, and your umbrage, karunjai, is IMO very valid. And I totally agree with you that if publishers wanted to fix these problems, they could.
At the same time, there are plenty of parallels in other digital media. There's the abysmal quality of a lot of MP3 audio, and the really embarrassing failings of "HD" digital cable TV whenever anything in the scene has the audacity to move.
Crappy proofreading doesn't save bandwidth, fair enough. (Although lots of MP3 audio could be way better, too, without using more precious, pricey kilobytes.) But it is similar in that, when you get down to it, most consumers either don't notice or don't care.
Edit: Sorry, dos, if you're still here, that I'm kind of off-topic. Kind of. My comments apply, I think, to buggy formats as well. But do you have to be so touchy?