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Originally Posted by AlanHK
Sorry, what is/was the "descriptions debacle"?
If it refers to the <dc:description> in the OPF, yeah, I hate all the html crap you often find there. If I edit that at all, I make it plain text.
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Hi, no, that's not what I meant. (Altho I don't disagree!). I meant that at one time, you could write HTML in the book description field, using tags like bold, em, color, and heading tags. People used it to make it look as though Amazon had put the content there, using Amazon orange, etc. Not only did Amazon get a bit fed up with the, uh...hijacking, I guess I'd call it, of their colors and text appearance, but more importantly (probably), the HTML in the page would mess with the page's rendering.
I once "solved" a mystery of why a friend's book was appearing, entirely in italics, by realizing that she'd probably left an open italicization tag in the description. Sure enough, once she put in the closing tag, the LookInside no longer appeared all in italics. :-)
Anyway, Amazon decided that they'd had enough of that and significantly curtailed the capability.
Hitch