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Originally Posted by DNSB
Hmmm... I paid for a book and it has 72pt wide margins on each edge, paragraphs with the line height set to 1.4, chapter titles are displayed 40% of the way down the page and take about 20% of the page height, the "full page" images were not using SVG wrappers to fit them to full page and damn near every other sin of ebook layout that could be committed was committed.
I guess I should have accepted the publisher's idea of what an ebook should look like on the screen and not edited it.
BTW, this was an epub from Google Books.
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True, there are lots of poorly formatted books around.
The problem here is that a kepub version does not fix this (completely). It only wraps some code around the existing code. If a book is poorly formatted it stays poorly formatted but it is possible that the added code 'unlocks' some of the device features.
BTW, that was not the point I wanted to make. The main point should be that device features should be handled by the device (firmware) instead of software (kepub). Backwards compatibility.