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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The difference is that I get rid of extra crud meaning any embedded fonts I don't need/want as in Next Reads and the fonts that go with it from Penguin Random House eBooks and any excess graphics. I also modify a few other things like getting rid of excess CSS and making the margins to 0 and normalizing the font sizes where needed. I also losslessly compress all the graphics. I also make sure cover is the first NCX entry. I then validate. I don't have strange issues with validated eBooks.
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I have to almost agree with you there though I tend to validate on opening before I even start editing. A surprising number of commercial ebooks fail to validate. Once I have modified and validated, the number of issues with reading the ebooks is pretty minimal. I don't bother with trying to losslessly compress the graphics since very few graphics source supply lossless originals.
One fun item were the sheer number of ebooks where the cover image was repeated. Attributor protected ebooks were a fine example where the first cover image had their logo and the second did not but there were enough others that bulked up the ebook with two cover images. Then there were those ebooks where the scene and/or chapter break was a graphic and every break had it's own copy of the image.