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Old 01-12-2015, 10:23 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by leftright View Post
Surely the authors style and intent should be retained irrespective of medium used to read.

Like music, does one preserve the integrity of the artists intent or does one remix the content when "duplicating" the music?. Gapless music playback and normalising sound levels are but two examples of the war between purists and those who don't give a damn.
The problem with this is that most ebooks I've seen use the same classes for every ebook produced by that particular publisher. I don't really mind this (except for the gazillion unused classes left in the CSS), but to call this "art" is going a bit far. Once in a while I do find an ebook that someone has take some care with, but mostly it's pretty standard assembly-line classes, fonts, etc., and not particularly well-done, either.
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