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Old 01-05-2012, 12:04 PM   #26
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by tayseidel View Post
I read mostly fiction novels, such as Star Trek novels so the issue isn't magnified for me. I like formatting to be uniform throughout and FBreader allows me to achieve this without spending time modifying an epub file.
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There are two basic schools of thought on ebook rendering:

One school believes ebooks *must* be rendered as the *publisher* chooses. They favor pdf or, if forced away from pretend-paper, locked-down epubs. It's *their* book.

The other school believes the consumer is paying the freight so they should have the option to read the ebook *their* way, regardless of what the publishing overlords may prefer.

I favor maximum end-user typographical controls and don't care a stuffed fig whether it displays "properly" or not as long as it is clean and readable. I favor Coolreader because its rendering starts with the embedded styles and then overlays *my* choices. It properly handles nested TOCs and it lets me disable the satus bar and use the entire screen for text.

It's *my* reader, *my* eyeballs, *my* money.
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