[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

@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.

Sure, but that isn't actually formatting. That's the author either blithely ignoring all normal standards, or being one of those people that's adamantly supporting blog-style formatting, etc. It's not like...choosing to use the enter key, (empty paragraphs) instead of margin, to create space between a heading and body text. I realize that's a fine distinction and perhaps, a distinction without a difference, but to me, the things we spoke about before were the differences between competent formatting, (top-margin instead of enter-enter-enter, for example), versus some gazoomba making a bad choice around his/her novel. See what I mean?

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.

You've mentioned this around the Martian previously and I don't necessarily disagree with you, but IIRC, you could turn those off on a Kindle, no?

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).

Yabbt, that's from like, 2011-2012. They're not going to go back and fix those! :-)

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.

Can't speak to that one.

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

I would agree with that. I wish that they'd pay me to fix them all, but there you go. If wishes were horses....

Hitch