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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I edit every book I buy in the calibre editor. Fixed font type and size in the body text, fixed margins and line-spacing in the same, too large paragraphs indents and spaces between ordinary paragraphs all have to go. These days it takes me a minute or two to fix a book, if that, except for a few horrific cases (usually self-pubs). Ads and excerpts from other books get thrown out too, as I can't stand those. Widows and orphans I set to 1.
I found it easier to do all this in one fell swoop than to constantly fiddle with the ereader settings and still be frustrated when things don't feel exactly right. I don't usually touch the font, line and margin settings on my Kobos at all anymore, once I've set them according to my preferences when I get a new device. I can just open a book and start reading. Bliss.
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"a minute or two per book" sounds like a little longer than it takes for me to make a similar set of adjustments when opening a book in KOReader - left-aligned, font Bitter, L/R & T/B margin settings, font size and weight, line spacing.
Even when I did have to make all those changes individually it still took no more than a minute. A similar amount of work, the choice simply being when it's done, before transfer to the device or after. For me now, having set my the above changes as my KOReader defaults, it's one or two clicks at most for the odd recalcitrant ebook, none at all for most