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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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That's surprising to hear for me, because I'd expect "fiddling with CSS" to take
more time than "fiddling with overrides" in this or that e-reader...
Which is exactly why I insist on maximum possible customizability to be made available for us in the e-reader app itself. Precisely so that we
don't need to fiddle with CSS manually. That's the
last thing I have time for in my busy life.
Adjusting CSS manually, or checking whether CSS is precisely reflected by an e-reader app – that's something straight for techies, for geeks, or for e-book creators/publishers.
I suspect there must be an outsized proportion of geeks and/or e-book creators/publishers contributing on these MobileRead boards, given the forceful and (to me) overblown criticism of Moon+ Reader we get to hear sometimes in these threads.
This is why I praise Moon+ Reader (and Marvin) so much: their customization options are so rich and advanced that it usually takes just a few taps for me to get
any book to look just the way I wish to see it for the many hours of reading that are to follow. Even without "fiddling with CSS" manually.
Yep, if I was forced to use e-reader software with very
limited customization options (such as Kindle, Play Books, or basically
any e-ink reader, I'm afraid...), then I guess I would feel the necessity to "fiddle with CSS" as well. But I'm very happy that Moon+ Reader and Marvin make this a non-issue for me. If BookFusion can one day match the customization options offered by Moon & Marvin, that will be just great.
Yeah, the resulting look of the e-book tends to be sometimes pretty different between Moon and Marvin, and I admit I'm sometimes surprised by Moon's renderings, but so what, as long as the writer's meaning is still fully preserved and the book looks great? Let's get to the really important stuff:
reading the book.
