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Old 06-13-2016, 12:52 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Well...arguably, Kobo does/can/has. But that's a different conversation.
Kobo makes extensive changes, but if I'm remembering right, they're all in the realm of noise—adding extra spans to work around bugs in their rendering engine, adding extra attributes to make it easier to maintain reading position in the book, etc. Those sorts of trivial manipulation are about as safe as you can get; even if you make a million such changes, they won't affect the customer experience other than perhaps pushing up the download size slightly.

I mean yes, pedantically, what they deliver is not a checksum-identical copy of the book, and I wish it were, because it would make certain things easier. But that doesn't really compare with chopping out chunks of your stylesheet arbitrarily....
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