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Originally Posted by gmw
I suspect the inclination to adjust ebooks probably started from the fact that the build quality of ebooks has been so inconsistent. Some books have been almost unreadable as supplied, so we were virtually forced to learn how to fix them. (And I'm not talking indie vs traditional - mostly I have more trouble with traditional, since badly formatted indie tend to get rejected early for other reasons.)
Once we learned how to adjust things, we worked out that we had preferences.
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Speaking of indie vs. traditional, I've I've found that a lot of indie eBooks sometimes have some pretty bad code under the hood. Worse then a lot of traditional eBooks. But, I've learned how to fix things so they work better.
I have basically rewritten the CSS in some eBooks because it was just easier.
Personally, I like the Keep it simple method when possible. No margins,no line height, maybe no embedded fonts, smaller spacing for the chapter headers, a text indent of 1.2em, no widows and orphans, smaller font sizes get made to the default font size (except the copyright),the offset text gets fixed, no paragraph spaces, no left justify, etc. It sounds like a lot, but it's not really.
Though one of the worst programs for making eBooks that gets used way way way too much is Vellum.