[Denwayz]

Thanks to all for your input.

Typography is an art. The letters themselves are elements of poetry. White/Black space (and the spectrum) is the ground of their emergence. Epub -- for reasons described above -- cannot presence this. That is not a bad thing -- this is a different medium. One never imagines that in transforming a book into a movie one is going to put a whole lot of text on the screen.

That said, I would draw your attention to a factor that strikes me as troubling. Great books are often transgressive. The works of Galileo, Abelard, Teilhard, and then Ulysses, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Lolita -- these all struggled to find the light of day, and would not have done so except for the insistence of writers and the courage of publishers prepared to break the structures of what was taken as 'acceptable'. Now, with the various epub protocols, we are faced with new kinds of Procrustean beds. It would be a great pity and loss if epub constraints prevented some great work of our time from reaching us. Just saying.