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Originally Posted by Sirtel
For me it doesn't matter whether I read the book once or many times. I cannot read it even once if it's not formatted the way I want. Usually it takes less than a minute to correct the formatting and as all my books go into Calibre anyway (I don't read library ebooks, they're not available in my country), it's no bother. Forced to put up with formatting I can't stand (for example, spaces between paragraphs or huge paragraph indents in a fiction book), that's way more bother.
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Did you have that issue with print books? I've got many examples of printed books that's exhibit all of the issues you say you can't stand in your ebooks. I mention this because it's a theory of mine that people have become more sensitive to formatting and typography preferences/issues precisely
because these things can be tweaked (or straight-up edited) in ebooks (by those willing to learn how). As I mentioned, there's never been any true "standard" when it comes to printing books, and often I wonder how many people noticed or were bothered by some these typographical idiosyncrasies (margins, indents, line-spacing, space between paragraphs, etc...) which were prevalent in print long before ebooks came into being.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Yes, I know I've got OCD.  |
I understand perfectly. You like what you like. I've got a mild case of it myself. I guess I'm just lucky that this is not one of the areas that triggers mine.
