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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Well I get that.
I just find it ironic that we (the typography "experts") complain more about formatting that is infinitely easier to "fix" than we ever complained about formatting we simply had no chance in hell of "fixing."
I'm also amused by the increasingly popular notion that there was ever some sort of magical, mythical pbook formatting/typography standard that ebooks aren't somehow adhering to. I can pull hundreds of pbooks off my shelves that break the typography "rules" laid down by the books on either side of them. And yet, it's only ebooks that are criticized for their typographic/formatting inconsistency.
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I could go look at a dozen different pbooks and see a dozen different formats.
3 books come to mind on really different.
1 book had a picture for the first page of a chapter and a blank page to end the chapter. Actually chapter length was 3 pages. Now that author I will let slide because she was close to 90 when she wrote that book.
The second one is an inch thick but only 64 pages. It is literally printed on cardboard, but then what else would one expect from a redneck.
Now the last one is a 1000 page paperback. They needed to include a magnifying glass.