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I picked "old fashioned but clean". I like to see the original layout of a book as it was published (within reason of course). If chapter headings were centered and italics, it stays the same in the ebook. If the beginning paragraph had no indentation and the other did, that also stayed the same in the ebook. If the copyright page had smaller text and all centered, ebook the same.
That did not mean if there was a 1" margin on each side that the ebook would have a 1" margin as well, or chapters start so far down that only a few lines of text end up on the page. Some formatting is just absurd to transfer into ebooks. And while I'll use a specific size and font style for title pages, copyright info, the main text of the book is free from a defined font so readers can pick whatever is most comfortable for them to read.
The text itself though, and to me more importantly, stays exactly as it was originally published and not changed other than for an apparent true error in spelling. Punctuation, terminology, even how words were spelled, etc. during the time the book was published of course will be different than what we use now. That doesn't mean I tamper with their original words or punctuation at all though. To me that's part of the charm of picking up an older book, to read as it was back then, and I would not like to read what someone else considered a "modernization" of the original words. I would avoid the changed books.
So no, I still don't want to see "modernized" ebooks. I prefer it as the author originally wrote it, word for word, and punctuation unchanged. It's not like the older style makes it so people reading it today can't understand the text. I really see no point in changing it.
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