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Originally Posted by elemenoP
About formatting issues: I recently switched from a Sony reader to a Kindle, and I'm MUCH MUCH happier with the formatting. It seems that epub gives a lot more control over formatting... which is both a blessing and a curse and after several years I have decided it's more a curse than a blessing. I never knew what a book was going to look like on my Sony reader until after I loaded it. Even after doing my own custom conversions in Calibre, for which I wrote my own CSS, loaded my own fonts, etc, sometimes the book didn't look right. Of the books I have read on the Kindle over the last few months, they all look THE SAME, both sideloaded books and books purchased from Amazon. That's not to say that the formatting is exactly as I would want it, but it's good enough and I no longer want to spend any time formatting ebooks. I let Amazon do it for me and I'm satisfied.
As for typos, I mostly read new releases and I sometimes notice typos but not too many. When I read a public domain book, I would certainly look for a high-quality source such as the MR library or B&N's classics series. I would not get them from Amazon or Gutenberg.
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The mobi format at least is much simpler than epub. When I am faced with a really odd formatting problem I will often find that converting to mobi and back again fixes it without any loss of quality IMO. Don't know about AZW3 etc.
I am a lot like you I think in that I don't care if the caps are dropped or if there are 16 different font sizes etc. I just want it to be comfortable to read
although I do appreciate proper section breaks and the dialogue being obvious that it is dialog.
Helen