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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Some publishers, especially in the 2008-2012 years seemed to think that a Word-to-EPUB conversion is OK, whatever the result is, and that's just not good enough.
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It's been a very long time since I've seen that (and original epub of the OP wasn't bad, just simple).
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I think we actually agree. The things I require in an ebook are:
- A good TOC
- No spelling errors or strung-together words (missing spaces)
- Chapter headings (if any)
- Scene markers (white line, ***, a glyph, whatever)
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A TOC, I might look at it once.
No spelling errors (or at least not rampant, you will find spelling errors in all written publications, no matter the format) I will 100% agree on.
Chapter headings, what do you mean by that? I've had the same paper books by different publishers (whoops, already bought that book...) that had different ways of showing chapter headings...
Scene markers, I can live with a white line.
What I can't stand is a white line between every single paragrah.
Even if the paragraphs are clearly related to each other.
Because it makes reading it very annoying!
I must say, I rather like epub, as it is so versatile and easy to modify. I really like a certain line-height and a certain font to read comfortable. With epub, I can very easily build that in all of my books (using Calibre). Yes, it might take me some time to figure it out once, but after that, it's simply copy/paste and 99% of the time it will work.