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Originally Posted by barryem
During that entire time the concept of a standard way for books to look just never occurred to me, probably because they all had their own unique look and style. Now that you have me thinking about it I'm glad that's how it is. Please, please, please don't make books all look the same.
Frankly I don't care that much. What a book looks like, the style of it's printing and formatting, has little impact on the story in most cases. Or, if it does, I'm not aware of it. There have been a few exceptions such as books by Alfred Bester where the layout of the text was almost pictoral in places. Usually though, a book has it's own font and spacing and margins and that's just fine with me.
Barry
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I'm one of those weird people who needs their e-books to look exactly the same. Otherwise I just cannot concentrate on the story. So I strip out all the things that make a book look unique (margins, spacing, embedded font etc.). All my e-books have the exact same layout and formatting, it's the only way I can happily read them. Funny, I never had that problem with paper books, but in the case of e-books any deviation from my preferred look bothers me exceedingly. I just can't help it. Of course I know I'm in the minority, probably in the very small minority.