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Originally Posted by dgraygrayco
As a book publisher who has done a lot of research into ePub formatting, I know that there are a lot of poorly formatted ePubs out there--including many from the Big Five publishers (who are rushing to get their backlist into ebook format). Ebook formatting is often in the hands of traditional-book designers, who don't fully understand HTML and CSS.
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.
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That is rather high on my list to address. I've still not decided to try to completely strip CSS (would be a LOT of work actually) but I am thinking that we should at least change the label of "use publisher formatting" control to "override formatting" (which would also require inverting the on/off toggle) so that it is more clear what is actually going on. And when set to "on" we would go ahead and over-ride the body margins and set them to zero.
Any comments good/bad on that approach?