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Originally Posted by GERGE
Note: This ended up being a little rant, sorry about that.
- Leave glyph size to the reader in the body text.
- Leave line spacing to the reader in the body text.
- Leave typeface choice of the body text to the reader.
- Leave justification settings of the body to the reader too.
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Something needs to change, or my next ereader will be a Kindle. While I think that Kobo produces better devices for me, I don't want to spend time fixing CSS anymore. |
I couldn't agree with you more. Also, image sizing is nuts at times, they don't understand basic compression. There's a few books I've bought that had a single cover image over 7 mb in size. This wasn't multiple intricate maps that you needed to see details in, it was a generic single cover. The size of the actual text of the book was underr 500 kb. Even if you're reading on a 24" monitor, it's still a waste of space and it's doubtful it would look any better.
When I scan a book, I'll set specifics for pages like the title page and copyright only, and the text itself is just plain generic nothing specified so all aspects can be changed for every reader's enjoyment and not just the quick-clickers.
Kindles really aren't any better, they're pretty much fully locked down at this point what you can change. While you can change the spacing, margins and font sizes, there is a big limit to how much you can change all of those. I have a PW2 and the spacing and margins are just too large for me at the lowest settings. You can't adjust font weight so all fonts look too thin for my eyes. You can't add your own fonts either, they can't be rooted without opening it up and using a serial connection. I never use it other than to get a free read once a month and to test converted books. I'm sorry I bought it at even a sale price.
So I'm happy sticking with epub readers like Kobo where I can at least make the changes to the epubs with Calibre and Sigil and then read them my way.