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Originally Posted by theducks
How does EXTENDING the existing layout hurt?
If the word now has a activated link to the footnote, does it really change the main body of the work (other than the typical coloring for a link) ?
How does appending Extras to the book hurt.
DVD's have had extras (audio commentary,notes...) for years. In no way did they harm the display of the original Movie. Nor did you even have to use them.
So you wish to penalize all those who use a capable device, to be reduced to the requirements of a limited device?
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For the record, I am in agreement with you.
I am in favor of adding extended options for more capable devices, as long as that does not impair the less capable devices for a particular format.
However.
I don't believe, personally, that because storage is relatively cheap that one should ignore bloat.
Nor do I believe that a new product should necessarily be backward-compatible with
all older/less capable devices. Up until 18 months or so ago, I was still using a Palm T|X as an eReader. I did not expect new eBooks to be in .pdb format. I understood that I would have to work a little to get my new products onto an older platform.
Such is the price (or requirement) of progress.
The rest of this-- paragraph indenting, whitespace, etc.-- seems to me to be more or less a personal preference thing. My preference for breaks would be a graphic of some sort, an unindented paragraph looks more like an editing error to me (of course, with a drop-cap it would be different; again, it's a preference thing).