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Originally Posted by Katsunami
To some extent, the OP is right.
When it comes to digital products:
- Many consumers are of the opinion that they should be free.
- Many producers are of the opinion that 'barely usable' is good enough.
Both aren't true.
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Exactly! Both are opinions. Opinions are neither true nor untrue, by definition.
The first ebooks I read were in plain text, long before there were commercial ebooks. There was absolutely no formatting of any kind other than spaces and new lines. They were read in a reader less capable by far than Notepad. They were simply scrolling lines of text. Initially the lines were each terminated with a newline because there was no word wrap. Fortunately the screens were all the same size.
I read a lot of books this way very happily.
By the way, Gutenberg.org, which was begun by the inventor of ebooks, distributed books in this format for years before more sophisticated methods became available.
Yes it's nice to have good formatting and I'm really glad we do. But any format will do for a good book. It's the content that matters.
Barry