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PageLab · 02-19-2012, 04:18 PM

Hi Jim,

Sorry if I wasn't very clear. I have nothing against the options you're talking about, like font size, background color and others. They're great and, in the majority of books, clearly improve the overall reading experience. What I'm saying is that the Publisher Defaults should be set ON from the beginning, because in some books, the formatting are highly connected with the meaning of the text, and there's no way for the software – or for the reader – to guess it right. Turning it OFF by default would simply break the understanding of the content.

So far, the only solution for this problem, in this particular situation, is to instruct the reader to activate the Publisher Defaults at the beginning of the book. This is just bad user experience.

I'm aware that a poorly designed eBook affects the reading experience negatively, but to simply ignore the original formatting of every single book beforehand is to judge different books on the same way.

02-19-2012, 04:18 PM	#28
PageLab Connoisseur Posts: 70 Karma: 515184 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Brasília Device: Kindle3, iPad, Nook, Kobo, Positivo Alfa	Hi Jim, Sorry if I wasn't very clear. I have nothing against the options you're talking about, like font size, background color and others. They're great and, in the majority of books, clearly improve the overall reading experience. What I'm saying is that the Publisher Defaults should be set ON from the beginning, because in some books, the formatting are highly connected with the meaning of the text, and there's no way for the software – or for the reader – to guess it right. Turning it OFF by default would simply break the understanding of the content. So far, the only solution for this problem, in this particular situation, is to instruct the reader to activate the Publisher Defaults at the beginning of the book. This is just bad user experience. I'm aware that a poorly designed eBook affects the reading experience negatively, but to simply ignore the original formatting of every single book beforehand is to judge different books on the same way.