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Originally Posted by Faterson
That's where we differ, Sirtel. 
I, in fact, enjoy that the same book looks different depending on the device I happen to be reading it on, although the text is the same. I can enjoy the same book in Moon on Tuesday, and in Marvin on Friday, and it's a slightly different experience every time.
It's comparable, in the world of printed books, to various editions of the same book. Would we really wish for (as an example) every single printed edition of the Bible to look exactly the same – in every edition ever printed? Not me!
I enjoy the variety, under the 2 crucial conditions mentioned above: as long as the original writer's meaning is preserved; and the resulting book is a joy to look at. There can be many varieties of joy!  |
My preferences as to how I want the text to look (font size, font type, margins, line-spacing, text-indent) are pretty narrow. I want the text to look
just right for me and as it usually takes time to get it look that way via overrides (plus I hate fiddling with them all the time), I edit the css.
And yeah, I didn't like the way many, many paper books looked. Font was too small/too big/too pale or just ugly, line-height was too small/too large and so on. With ebooks I can have them all look exactly as I want. That is far more important to me than variety. I'm pretty anal that way.
