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Originally Posted by radius
I guess for me personally, instead of deciding how I want things to look up front at document conversion time, I'd like to defer until reading time as much formatting as possible (eg: paragraph first line indentation, size of margins, justification, hyphenation, kerning, font face, font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, widow/orphan control etc.) so that I can find something comfortable to match the text and my surroundings, and the hell with what publishers want a book to look like  |
That's exactly the approach that MobiPocket Reader uses. Have relatively little "layout" information in the book and let the reader decide such things as font, justification, margin size, paragraph spacing, etc. Different versions of the Mobi Reader allow you different degrees of control; the Pocket PC and desktop versions are currently the most flexible; the iLiad the least flexible. The CyBook Gen3 is somewhere in the middle - it will currently allow you to set font face and size and justification, but not margin size or paragraph spacing. I'm sure it'll get better with future software updates.