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Originally Posted by Hitch
NJ, you are COMPLETELY full of it. Did all those "fancy fonts" interrupt your reading pleasure for the 50 years of reading you did before eBooks? NO, they didn't. Somehow, print designers designed books and laid them out, since the time of Gutenberg, and everybody managed to read them without whingeing about bloody fonts, generally.
I frequently wonder about what sort of world we're creating here, where every wanker thinks that every single experience has to be hand-tailored for them. Instead of just taking a damn book and READING IT, which is the intended use.
Sure, seeing 100K words in Comic Sans would be bad. But someone using comic sans, as appalling as that would be, for a title page or Chapter heads, won't kill anyone.
Hitch
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Speaking of fonts, the answer is that in most cases unless it was Charis SIL embedded, the answer is yes, it did interrupt my reading enjoyment as the fonts are too light. When I had Sony Readers, I was unable to do anything about the fonts on the Reader. That's why I got into making changes to eBooks. I've seem many eBook with some form of Garamond embedded. That font makes for a poor reading experience unless you can override or up the weight. Then there is the graphic images used as text that also don't work and make for a poor reading experience.
The problem is that when fonts are embedded, they aren't tested on an eInk screen to see if they are acceptable as is. Yes they may be OK in print, but they are not OK for eInk and in some cases, not even OK on an LCD screen (iPhone, iPad).
I can remove embedded fonts that I don't want and fix formatting that I don't like, but should I have to?