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Old 02-19-2012, 12:51 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by PageLab View Post
The formatting intentions of the author should prevail over readers' expectations, and I'm not talking about eye candy here.
PageLab,
Welcome to MobileRead. First to make sure we are talking about the same things, let me be specific about what we are talking about within the context of this thread. Most nook reading systems have a Text option panel. This panel lets you set the font, font size, page margin, line-height, and for reader systems on a LCD device instead of eInk, the background color and text color as well. These options necessarily override the styling that is in the ePub, and as such there is an additional option, labeled 'Publisher Defaults', to not override any styling and display the content with just the formatting that is in the ePub.

If you are saying that the users should not have these options, then I disagree with you. These are features that substantially improve the reading experience for the vast majority of users, and are not unique to B&N readers, precisely because users have stated a strong preference for having those features.

If you meant something else, then please elaborate, because I didn't get that from what you wrote.
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