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Old 01-11-2011, 03:07 AM   #420
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Originally Posted by dgraygrayco View Post
I read ebooks on multiple devices and platforms. One thing I've found is that the more settings I'm able to override, the better my reading experience is. No publisher can guess what type size will be comfortable for me on my iPhone, for example, and should not try to specify one. Same with margins. I'm currently trying to read a HarperCollins ebook using Bluefire on an iPhone, and at a small type size and "no" margin, I'm still getting wide margins--and only averaging 4 words per line, which is too few for sustained reading.
Harper Collins seem to be repeat offenders in rushing poorly OCR'd text into a mediocre ePub wrapper. Many OCR artifcats and offensive formatting. I avoid them now.

Gollancz (Orion) seem to be on the ball, their ebooks even have front matter that refers to the ebook, not the print version!
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