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Originally Posted by Anak
I also read English books from time to time. Some titles I purchase, others I download first (if I don't know the author).
I have noticed that many of these English books contains lots of <div> formatting where I would expect a <p> formatting. I don't know if this is the default formatting that most US/CA/UK publishers use. Or that it is the result of a poor Calibre conversion. I'll never use Calibre to convert a book from one format to another (mobi > epub). But I've seen many downloads containing lost of "calibreXX" sh*t and those books are always poorly formatted. |
I've purchased several ebooks that were not calibre conversions but did use <div> tags where I would have expected <p> tags. Some of them had poor formatting but that might be a matter of my opinion vs. the opinion of the creator of the ebook.
An example of what I considered poor formatting was having the first paragraph of a chapter followed by a .5em margin while following paragraphs have no bottom margin/padding. Other annoyances are having stray blank spans scattered through the chapter files, having your body declaration in the stylesheet in 4 separate chunks or using multiple blank lines at the end of a chapter often giving you a blank page between chapters.
Then there was a set of books my wife purchased. Unformatted cover image tucked into the upper right left corner of the screen followed by a blank page followed by the book title at the top of the page followed by a blank page followed by the book's author (again at the top of the page) followed by a blank page followed by the publisher's name and logo and yet another blank page. Eight pages into the book and you haven't even reached the table of contents. Given that all 5 ebooks had the same formatting, I was forced to conclude that someone thought this was attractive.