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Originally Posted by svenlind
I remember the book from a long time ago and decided to purchase it. I paid $2 because I like to pay for services rendered.
But it is indeed a mess, at least the epub version. Formatting is very bad and you can't change the very small textsize. I tried this in the Marvin, Mapleread and Hyphen ebook readers.
Embedding a font using Calibre made it at least possible to increase the textsize. So the book is now readable.
Edit: The Calibre ebook reader could handle the original epub in my Windows PC.
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Possibly having the font sizes being in an absolute format which pretty much makes them non-scaleable.
Here's a sample:
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<p style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:justify; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:11.5pt">
Let us offer a cheer for redundancy -- how many times do you need 11.5pt as the font size -- the average through the book was 2.5 times per paragraph.
I wasted 20 minutes using Sigil and regex to clean up the book and add a stylesheet. The unpacked size of the files shrank from 1488211 to 930333 though the packed file size increased by 9KB -- repeated ASCII text compresses very well. My ereader was much happier with the final result.