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Originally Posted by mcooke66
I never understood why everyone is so picky abut the fonts. We all read paper books without complaint and never had any choices, now that we have this great device with all these options we have to pick that to death. never mind, that is human nature as well.
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Well, first off, we didn't ALL read paper books without complaint and without choices; exhibit A would be the Large Print runs of books which are highly necessary for many people. And then some folks just plain
didn't buy certain books with crappy fonts because they were crappy.
Second off, margin size is NOT the same issue as font size. with a publisher-set margin size, you could very well end up with a tiny little river of text with mountains of white space on either side, depending on the size of your eReader. I have a 5" screen and some of the publisher margins are killer and very distracting.
Third off, the reason people demand choices from eBooks that they didn't demand from paper books is because it's simple enough technology to implement. With paper books, it was pretty impossible to have custom font/margins, but with eBooks, it's incredibly easy, so why shouldn't we ask for them?
The fact that the old format had certain flaws does not have ANY bearing on the new format. Nor should it.
