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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yup, right, that one. I don't use it, obviously, as we're making commercial books. I don't retrofit my own reading materials; I do this crap all week long. I'm damned if I'm going to be so anal that I'll put in HOURS refitting someone else's-built book, so that I can spend what little time I have free then trying to read it.
By the time I put the time in, all my "free" time would be shot for that week, and I couldn't even look at it until the next. If I'm very, very lucky, I get Sunday off, after starting at 5:30 in the morning and leaving my office around 6-6:30 at night, 6/days/week. I would not, ever, redo someone else's book. If it's that damned bad, I'll tell Amazon. Bugger if I'll spend my own time doing it. I don't see rivers, any longer, when reading on a Kindle. I just don't. It's self-defense, so I don't turn into a loon and start redoing books.
Hitch
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I find if you can fix some of the glaring goofs in an ePub rather quickly. I put in my own body and p styles. I then remove all unused CSS. I fix any font sizes in the body text and then fix the large spacing such as the chapter titles. That takes almost no time to do so.