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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
No, I don't mean anything else. Having to choose for EVERY BOOK that I want the publisher formatting wasn't nice. And everybody can say how nice is to change the formatting at the app, I don't want to do it.
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Ah, so that's it!
You expect your e-reader to give you the exact opposite from what I expect from it. I desire nothing more than to
get away from "publisher formatting" – I just never want to see it. My take is that a superb e-reader is such that allows you to easily
override "publisher formatting". I wish to be "my own typesetter" for every e-book I read!
(And no, definitely not in Calibre by manually tweaking the code or any such stuff; a superb e-reader should give us those options directly in the app, and this is where apps like Marvin and Moon+ Reader on Android excel; with many shortcomings at this stage of development, of course, as Jon would be happy to point out.)
Naturally, if your priorities are different, Terisa, Marvin and other "Stanza-lookalikes" won't be your cup of tea.
Believe it or not, folks, but the legal minimum wage here in Slovakia, an EU country, is €5,220 per year.
Yep, that's something over $6,250 in yearly income, and it amounts to getting paid a €2.50 hourly wage (3 US dollars for one hour of work performed). Slovakia's government is now contemplating raising the minimum wage to €5,760 per year starting from 2018, but it's getting criticized because the country apparently can't afford such luxury.
We can play that Monty Python game where they argued about who grew up in poorer conditions.
And, I'm sure in many regions of the world, €5000 per year would be perceived as unimaginable wealth.