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Originally Posted by Colerson
The style (how they appear; spacing vs no spacing between paragraphs, etc) should be customizable and not hardcoded. I've returned ebooks which do not easily allow me to fix bad formatting because they don't use CSS.
For me, the bottom line is that I don't care how a publisher wants things to look. I want things to look how I prefer them to look. This applies to novels; I can appreciate that some books need special layout throughout.
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Very true. Unfortunately a lot of that has to do with the reader/app functionality rather than the HTML coding. Readers/apps that don't allow the user to override the publisher settings are, in my opinion, useless. I like to style my books a certain way - and it is usually to repair a very bad coding attempt by the publisher/author. I've found that Marvin does a great job at that. I also tend to clean up the gnarly css code on most books I read (because I can)... Marvin allows me to choose publisher's settings for those books.
Unfortunately, as long as there are the great unwashed masses that continue to use the substandard readers/apps, there won't be much pressure for developers to provide a better product.
Cheers,