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JSWolf · 03-28-2022, 03:10 PM

@Hitch, there are some things that pBooks do that a lot of eBooks don't do. For example, I don't know of any novels that have paragraph spaces.

Embedded fonts can be a problem. For a Kindle they just make the eBooks larger with no benefit as most people won't even know they exist. Also for other Readers, the embedded fonts may not be acceptable. For example, The Martian. It had three really awful fonts embedded. Free Serif, Free Sans, and Free Mono. All much much too light on an eInk screen.

I've also seen where the right margin is larger then the left margin. I know why that was done, buy these days, that's not needed. It was done because of the right margin page numbers from ADE (before they were allowed to be turned off).

I've also seen cases where offset text was just too small and needed to be made larger but that made the body text too large.

There are lots of eBooks out there with these sort of things that don't need to be done that way.

03-28-2022, 03:10 PM	#44
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,222 Karma: 148951761 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	@Hitch, there are some things that pBooks do that a lot of eBooks don't do. For example, I don't know of any novels that have paragraph spaces. Embedded fonts can be a problem. For a Kindle they just make the eBooks larger with no benefit as most people won't even know they exist. Also for other Readers, the embedded fonts may not be acceptable. For example, The Martian. It had three really awful fonts embedded. Free Serif, Free Sans, and Free Mono. All much much too light on an eInk screen. I've also seen where the right margin is larger then the left margin. I know why that was done, buy these days, that's not needed. It was done because of the right margin page numbers from ADE (before they were allowed to be turned off). I've also seen cases where offset text was just too small and needed to be made larger but that made the body text too large. There are lots of eBooks out there with these sort of things that don't need to be done that way.