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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I'm probably a minority, but I like all of my books formatted the same. Same font, same justification, same spacing etc. Drop caps, florid letters etc. are fine, but give me consistency every time.
Not that I have any objection to you preferring the fancy formatting.
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I agree with you here. While a well-formatted ePub book is more "feature-rich" than a well-formatted mobi book, this also means there are a lot more ways an ePub book can be messed up. Unfortunately I've bought enough of these poorly formatted ePubs to be leery of small publishers and self-published authors. If given a choice, I'll usually buy the Kindle version of that book now. I just recently bought a "3 book combo pack" that was on sale for 99 cents. I had bought the original book (or actually it was free), when it was still published by Simon & Schuster, and it was well-formatted (professionally published) in both ePub and mobi formats. (I wanted to compare the two formats, which is why I had one of each.) Now the books are self-published (I bought both, after starting with the ePub vesion) and they're both a mess -- but at least the ePub version was readable, and easily fixed in Calibre (for justification and line spacing and indentation). The ePub version is unreadable. Sentences cut in half and then indented oddly -- also has funky spacing. I tried to fix the ePub version in Calibre and it still ended up being a total mess.