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Originally Posted by JSWolf
An eBook format is one that allows for styling.
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I thought an ebook format was on that allowed for reading!
Actually, though, plain text does allow paragraphs and indentation and I would call that styling. Just not as much as came later.
I remember a discussion in a Palm forum lo those many years ago about formatting. This was at the point where a few ebooks were coming available in formats that allowed for bold and italicizing. At that point I'd been reading only text files and I was surprised that there was a concern for these features. Not that they can't add something but they add very little to most novels and the price for them, in terms of efficiency on those very low powered devices, wasn't small.
A few people jumped in and let me know that it wasn't possible to take reading seriously without those features. A few others sided with me. It soon became obvious there wasn't a middle ground or room for discussion so the topic died quickly.
Today I'm glad I have those features. I don't see them as necessary but they are nice and the devices can better handle them now as well as more sophisticated features such as kerning.
Barry