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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There's no good reason for the body copy of an ebook to be anything other than the default size.
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It seems difficult to get across how important this is.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Don't forget pdurrants comment. Unless the book is only for yourself or it is a fixed size format, you should never set the default size for a book. This should always be left to user preference.
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Apparently this can not be repeated often enough.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
As for the default font size? As far as I can tell, that is a whole other can of worms. Testing multiple ereaders, apps and web browsers gave me a rather varied selection of font heights on screen when a default font size was not specified -- this was done using a test document when the body size was defaulted to 1em and the same test document with the font-size declaration removed.
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What matters is how the user has modified from the device default. The
entirely reasonable expectation is to almost never have to change the default size when changing between documents.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The question isn't whether the same document looks the same on lots of different devices - that will, of course, depend on the various devices' settings.
What should be avoided is having to change the settings on a single device for every new book to get the same apparent font size. And the way to do that is for books not to set the body font size, but leave it to the device defaults.
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Amen.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
An entirely valid point, although at least specifying a body font size in "ems" doesn't prevent the size being changed, which specifying it in "absolute" units such as points, does.
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Just because the user can override the change is no reason to make a change to the body text size.