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For the past year or so I've been OCRing old pulp magazines and old books from Internet Archive, to make epubs I can read. They somewhere contain just about every style feature mentioned above, and change over the years, across publishers, and even within publishers across issues. Nope, no standards.
As for a gripe about dumb things: in magazines, how about scene breaks where there is no reason for them in the text? Just to have one or two on every page?
But the magic of ebooks is I can make these old texts into readable books. My style, for my old poor eyes: really, really simple. Most of you would probably hate my style, but wait until you get old enough. This magic is keeping my brain young.
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