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I agree with what you say, @JSwolf, @ps67: the great benefit of e-reading is it can put the reader back in control of their reading experience. It does offend me when book publishers impose their own decisions on me, particularly as regards layout, element-sizing and typeface.
They may argue that their choices are artistically justified ... and sometimes they may even be right. Certainly, it's reasonable for the content owner to be allowed to express an opinion about what their content should look like to the reader. But given the diversity of reading systems, and the different preferences and needs of the content users, it really is best if the publishers leave the readers free to customise their reading experience.
When I first developed the Freda e-reader, I began by ignoring all publisher-specified information. That was a rather extreme position, which came in for some criticism. Now, the program applies whatever CSS the publisher provides, and I've added settings to let the user ignore various aspects of the CSS (colour, margins, font size and typeface - these being the publisher-specified settings that I most often find annoying).
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