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Originally Posted by wiljo
Maybe you have a look at it and "feed me" some comments on the "book-feel" of it??
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I can't say how well it works on an iLiad, but some comments in general:
Over all, looks very good -- much better than I expected. Perhaps a bit too wide pages for the iLiad, but as I don't have one to check on, it's just a guess.
You've worked to avoid widows, and end-of-page hyphenation. This produces some 'jumping' when switching to/from '+1' pages. I think in at least some cases it would have been possible to avoid it -- did you try making columns slightly wider/narrower (+/- 1 pt or so) on or before these pages? It's invisible, but can help a lot. (Allowing character width changes also helps, but I suspect you've already used that?) Moving pagination to the page head would help disguise this a bit, I think. Could probably be removed as well.
A bit too many short pages ... they grate a bit on my eyes, and I think it may
be possible to avoid most of them (at the cost of some further work, of course).
Typeface is a bit 'smudgy' on a PC screen ... I expect it looks clearer on the iLiad, with its higher resolution. Looks like it needs a little extra spacing before !, and perhaps a few other 'high' symbols.
I think the 'table of contents' icon is a little too eyecatching.
And I think some hyphenations are slighty less than perfect -- probably automatic, but I don't trust the Proximity dictionaries very far. You may want to doublecheck these if you want perfection.
As you see, I'm nitpicking. This is, by and large, what I think a PDF eBook should be. I think it could use some polishing, but that's all I've been able to find in a very quick look-over.
Four and a half stars out of five for general production value! Actual iLiad value, I can't say yet, but I expect you will need only minor layout adjustments, along with some more widow-hunting, of course.