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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Not to mention poems.
And fonts!
And BOOKS!
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Poems, now, dem is tricky stuffs. Especially "visual poetry," god save me. Nothing against the poets, but, MAN!!! Try to adopt/adapt new tech, wouldja? If you're going to be whatever the new Beat Generation is, get with the program.
You know, nj, that
I disagree with you, utterly, about fonts. I simply feel that nothing--nothing--makes a book feel like a BOOK like fonts. With an eBook, I can't pick it up. I can't fan the pages, and smell the ink, the paper. I can't run my fingertips over the subtle impressions of the letters, on the page, feel the
smoothness of the paper. I can't smell the binding glue. I get
no tactile reinforcement that I'm looking at, or reading, a book.
But with a subtle and
tasteful use of fonts, I can give you the eyball-joy of a book. What else can do that, in our digital world?
And more importantly, Padawan Apprentice...I can make your LITB sit up and take notice. ;-)
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The main problem with trying to reproduce the look of the printed version by using the same fonts doesn't work in most cases. In most cases, the fonts used don't work for eBooks. The fonts are too light for eInk screens. And thus, they can cause eye strain or just be harder to read.
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Indeed. if you embed AGaramond, you are going to hell, where Satan will set you up with the eyesight of a middle-aged or older person, and eternity of embedded Garamond. It's brutal.
But Garamond is a lovely,
lovely font for reading. It is, There are ways around this--using some of its cousins in the Adobe family, for example Caslon or Janson or others--but these things take TIME and effort to do well. Most commercial firms, certainly in our meager price range, can't be bothered. I can't live without bothering. ;-)
Hitch