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Originally Posted by treadlightly
I agree, I want ebooks to look the way I want too. In my mind there is no reason why the device couldn't modify the stylesheet settings. If you want to modify yours on your computer, then great, you would select "Use ebook style" on your device. But for those who don't want to do any pre-processing, the settings should be able to be configured by the device. Some of them can be modified presently, why not more of them? One of the biggest reasons that I use an ereader is because I want to modify the display to my liking. So why should the ereader restrict this in any way? One of the reasons I chose Kobo was because it gives the greatest flexibility in this, and the more flexibility that is added will make it even better.
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There is a whole can of worms in modifying styles as they can and are applied at multiple levels. One ebook I recently purchased and as usual, looked at with Sigil, had separate stylesheets for the title page, copyright page, dedication page, body of the book and the publishers blurb pages at the end plus a couple that were just imported into the others. Then there were multiple styles applied at the chapter level and a couple that appeared to be manually added to various special pieces of text (a quote from a poem, for example) that were added to the <div>s around the poem's text.
This ebook also looked very nice on my Aura. The only change I made was removing the first 4 entries from table of contents file so the book opened on the first chapter.
Trying to program two renderers used by Kobo to change that formatting on the fly would take a lot of developer resources and, in my opinion, not work all that well. That poem would just look so good stretched right across the page with the lines joined up - not.
Regards,
David