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Originally Posted by DNSB
My wife picked up a book which was a total disaster in terms of the styling and was damn near unreadable. I've attached a screenshot of what it looks like on a PW with the narrow margins and medium spacing. I killed 10 minutes converting the in-line styles to a CSS stylesheet, cleaning up the font-family settings that seemed to be assuming I would be reading on a Windows computer, the large left/right margins, etc.
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Eh--I've seen worse formatting. That would bother me, but not enough to make me take the trouble of changing it. The only thing that would tempt me to change it is when authors/publishers embed stupid stylized fonts that are hard to read, and I can't change it. Anything else, my mind just ignores after the initial "ewww".
Excessive spelling and grammar errors, on the other hand, make me crazy.
Of course, past experience tells me that generally neither of these will cause me to go to the trouble of "fixing" the book...I generally just read it (if possible) or give up on it (if ignoring and reading isn't possible). In the second case, I do complain to the author, or publisher, or vendor, or in one notable case, all three.
I guess I'm just lazy.
Shari