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Originally Posted by lightbulbjim
I understand what are saying but I’ve been doing it for years now and don’t feel like I’m missing much. I should clarify that if a book has a good reason for special formatting then I’ll leave it alone, but that’s rare. Usually I prefer to have the font, line spacing, margins etc consistent between books.
Many books I read have either formatting or OCR errors which I need to fix. I treat the first read through of any ebook as a proof read. So I don’t mind standardising the typography at the same time.
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It's easier to learn to edit the code yourself for an ePub. Plus, you can fix anything else that you may want to fix that a conversion will not fix. Some of what I fix are not possible to fix with a conversion.
As for the fonts, if the eBook uses sans-serif and/or monospace but they are not the main font, then I would leave them. With the main font being your choice, you get the same font, same font size, and same line height for most of the eBook. I have seen some eBooks where monospace is used in a way that you do want to keep it.