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Old 08-06-2017, 04:31 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
This is one hell of a crappy eBook (not the story, the formatting and how it's created). I downloaded the ePub and found it to be really bad. The ePub is made up of one HTML file that's 1.6mb and because of this, it won't work on a number of Readers.. There is no CSS. In the spoiler is a sample of the typical coding in the HTML. I don't know if I've ever seen any eBook as badly coded as this one.
You mean you don't adore in-line styles?

I've seen 3 ebooks with the same craptastic formatting. All 3 were Phoenix Pick/ArcManor freebies. As mentioned in this thread, the .mobi version was a lot cleaner and converting it to epub was a giant step to having a cleanly formatted epub. Saved me from sending Code of the Lifemaker by James P. Hogan to the recycle bin which I was very tempted to do, since to my eyes, the effects of the jitter from the styling made the .epub hard to read.

Ghod knows, I've dealt with weird formatting produced by Vellum and InDesign to mention two programs that love impossible to read stylesheets but at least they have stylesheets.

Hmmm... I think this is the 3rd time I've agreed with Jon on formatting.

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