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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Maybe not complaints. But I know I've pointed out in the past that the magical, perfectly uniform typography of commercially published pbooks, that many people insist on referring to never really existed in the first place. It's a myth. I can pull commercially published books off of my shelf that are ragged right. I can pull some down that have spaces between all paragraphs. Some that have no indent on first paragraphs, and some that do. Some that have a crap-ton of vertical space before new chapter headers and some that have none (and everything in between). Some with hyphens, some with rivers of white. Some with huge paragraph indents, some with tiny ones. Way too much line-spacing and lines that almost touch each other.
The fact is that there has always been a wide disparity of notions about how text was supposed to look on a page--physical or electronic. Enough so that I feel confident in doubting just about anybody who says "this is the way it's supposed to be done." *shrug*
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One reason I like some uniform formatting is that the overrides then work much better. No line hight and I can use the line height slider. No margins and I can use the margins slider. No embedded fonts and I can use the font selection.. Leaving the body font at the default seize and I get the size that works for me with the font slider.
So really, when things are done that prevent these setting from working, then it may not be as good a reading experience. Some of the formatting used in a lot of eBooks looks kind of sloppy (IMHO). And with this sloppy formatting, look at the pBook and there isn't such sloppy formatting.