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Old 10-24-2017, 09:39 AM   #36
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Is it the books are not readable or is they are not up to your standards?
I think since 2011, I have only found 1 BPH that I could not read. That was due to you couldn't change the font.

Now is it the publishers are greedy or are they just giving the majority what they want?
In some cases, not readable. They use different font sizes and sometimes when they make sizes smaller, they make them too small so when you are set for the size that's most of the book, there are some parts that are too small. Also, in some cases, they use a graphic image instead of a table or proper embedded fonts with that font. So the text in the graphics is too small and not readable.

If pBooks were made with same shoddy formatting, lots of people would not be happy. Would you like pBooks with fonts that are too light and thus hard to see? Left/right margins that are huge? Large paragraph spaces? Left justified? different fonts sizes were some are too small? a table or a different font as graphics that are too small to read? No indents and large paragraph spaces? Indents of 5% of the page? These sorts of things are actually more common than you think with eBooks.
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