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Originally Posted by Cosimo
I'm just the opposite. I do have a preferred font, and occasionally I have to adjust the font size, but that's all.
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Ah, yes. But You don't even have that with paper books. Neither choice of font nor size of font. For me the real beauty of ebooks is that if you want to adjust things you can. That choice makes it also possible to make every book exactly alike if you choose. Even if all do is make the font and size the same, all books will look close-ish. Minor things like indent or no indent, space or no space after paragraph don't change the act of reading that much. Changing fonts, size, line spacing from one book to next would throw me off. Anymore when I pick up a paper book and look it doesn't give the impression it wants to be read by me. Paperback is too crammed - can't even read the inside without nearly ripping the spine in half. Hardcover has so much white space in the text blocks.
Originality in ebook design has its downsides as well. Just yesterday I looked at my wife's book/Voyage and was asking if that page was a letter or something. No, the whole book looks like that with the left margin twice as big as the right. Eeeew.
