[melchizedek]

I'm curious: I bought an epub book yesterday and was sad to see it was atrociously formatted. Unnecessary spaces between every paragraph, random breaks in text mid-sentence, no paragraph indenting, etc. I was considering sending it back, but I really wanted the book, so I decided to manually edit it using Sigil.

First, I stripped out the DRM. I then loaded it into Calibre -- just to make sure the DRM had been removed -- and to my surprise, the book was correctly formatted. The spaces were gone, as were the breaks in text, and the paragraph indentations were back.

My question is: has anyone known this happen before, and is it possible that DRM actually screws up the formatting of books? For reference, I tried the original DRM file in my ereader, in Adobe digital editions, and in Kobo's own reading app, and the formatting was rubbish in all three. I removed the DRM... it was perfect in all three.

Any thoughts?