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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have no idea what you're trying to say here.  Your evidence that most pbooks were formatted the way that you and Jon describe as "standard" is publicity photos used to sell ereaders? Weird, but you do you.
And again... Jon's "evidence" was " because I've not seen it in pbooks, most people X". Hardly convincing. Definitely not defendable. |
Publicity photos are designed to make a product look as appealing as possible to the majority of potential customers. If you look at any photo produced by a company that is attempting to sell the concept of 'use our gadget to read books on a screen', whether it be Kindle, Kobo, Pocketbook, Barnes and Noble or the iPad, it will show a device displaying text in the way Jon described: indents, no paragraph space, justified, hyphenated, and a serif font
They do that because that is the sort of look that tells the majority of people 'this is a book we're displaying.'
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My evidence that "a majority" of ebooks might not have been formatted the way that you and Jon describe as "standard" is the fact that I can (and often do) easily pull pbooks from many peoples' collections that defy the unicorn pbook standard you both describe.
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Anecdotal evidence is fun to talk about. But doesn't really prove any point.
Honestly, I suspect you are being purposely obtuse so that you can have something to argue about.
