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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
But in this case he is right.
You can argue about whether ebooks need to reproduce the look of paper books. But back in the heydays of e-ink readers, one of the selling points was that it looks like an actual book. Including indents, no paragraph space, justified, hyphenated, and a serif font.
That is still the case. As evidence, look at any publicity photo from any of the popular ereader makers.
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Jon said all that?!
No, he's not right. Jon thinks that because he can't recall any print books that commit the egregious "errors" that he sees in some ebooks, that they didn't
occur in print books. He's wrong about that.
He also thinks that he represent "most" people when it comes to how ebook typography should appear. Even if true (and I don't for a minute think its is), his giant non-sequitur is still a giant non-sequitur.
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The majority of print books I've read did things like X. Ergo... most people expect to see the same look I do."
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
You can argue about whether ebooks need to reproduce the look of paper books.
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I have no interest in the topic of whether or ebooks
need to reproduce the look of paper books. None.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
But back in the heydays of e-ink readers, one of the selling points was that it looks like an actual book. Including indents, no paragraph space, justified, hyphenated, and a serif font.
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Again... there never was a time when all actual books conformed to any "
indents, no paragraph space, justified, hyphenated, and a serif font" standard (regardless of whatever eink heyday sales pitch they might have fallen for). That is my point.