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Originally Posted by hobnail
Although the funny thing is that for me I'm only obsessive about a book's formatting when it's an ebook. The main thing being that it has a ragged right margin so there isn't the occasional uneven spacing between words, and that it uses a serif font for the body text (I use a big sledge hammer and remove all font-family stuff and specify the font on my ereader).
With printed books I'm oblivous about the formatting. Fortunately with them the formatting is always reasonable and I've haven't yet seen a fiction book that uses sans serif.
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Part of the spacing issue is Printed books have more options that the render engines offer. so the huge gaps are less frequent.
Still, It does take a careful type setter and proofing that cares.
OTOH e-books can have almost infinite (corrective) updates, as there are no press runs or plates. A Wham Bam, edit session and an upload to the host.