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Originally Posted by Lucas Malor
@Rev. Bob: the problem is not the books, but the different ereaders. If I write a book usually I test it with the ereader that I mostly care. For the majority of people this is enough. The problem is that ereader softwares does not folllow standards. This is the same mess with pages that you write for Internet Explorer only.
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In my experience, the huge majority of ebooks out there are overformatted. The combination of overspecified CSS and sloppy HTML leads to a predictable result: ebooks that look very different on different devices. On the other hand, ebooks with clear, simple code work a lot better - there's just less to mess up.
The software isn't blameless, but GIGO is a more significant factor.