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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
OCR issues are seldom a problem with relatively recent books; most publishers have the manuscript in digital version. What is a problem is formatting, there is a lot of atrocious formatting in commercial epubs. Unless you remove DRM you can't do anything about it, without DRM it is usually a simple matter of removing CSS definitions. Unless I remove the 175% line height, 0.9in indents and 1.5in margins (all observed by me personally in books I've bought) the epub is practically useless for me.
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One thing I have observed is that many recent books from Wizards of the Coast (from Dungeons and Dragons and such) are very good. Clean formatting, very nice dropcaps, nice chapter headings, good maps.
If they only could do two things:
- DROP THE FRACKING BUILT-IN FONT. (Often "Charis".) Why do publishers do that? Some readers just prevent you from changing the font if one is built in. Also drop the font-family. Some readers use the mentioned font if they have it, and you can't change it.
- Drop the half-line spacing between paragraphs in many books.
For many people, these things would probably not be an issue, and the books would therefore be fine to them. Could it be that Wizards of the Coast attracts many (mainly) nerdy/technical people that are bound to know a lot about e-reading, have probably read a lot of their paper novels in the past, and therefore take care to make their books look good?