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Old 02-18-2012, 12:17 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
The formatting intentions of the author maybe. The actual formatting used by the publisher, no way. I don't want to be forced idiotic margins, tiny font sizes, or unreadable fonts just because the publisher (or someone hired by them) thought they look cool in the iPad.
Well, if the publisher don't pay attention to what the author wants for his book, that's just a bad publisher. But we can't generalize saying that all publishers are bad, and don't know what they are doing... I totally agree with you that we should not impose this kind of thing to readers, but actually there IS situations where the content demands some level of control. Simply removing all of it by default doesn't make any sense. Until we have a software able to predict all types of formatting possible, it's better to leave the final decision in human hands – and brains, hopefully.
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