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Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine
But that's exactly why I keep mentioning the Professionally made ePubs, they DON'T do any of that. The ONLY time I've ever seen that happen was with some of the Amateur-made Fanfiction that I've read.
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And you don't seem to realize that some of people offering the advice that you don't want to take are professionals in the ebook field.
My opinion as someone who has read and formatted quite a few ebooks over the years is that most professional ebooks are not well formatted. One friend of mine was of the opinion that most of the "professionals" were hired not for their knowledge but for how cheaply they could be hired
That situation has improved over the last decade but, in my not so humble opinion, many ebooks produced by the Big Five and most other publishers are not great teaching tools for anyone wanting to learn CSS. Considering the number that I've seen that still use the CSS reset code and that include everything that should be inherited from the parent in the child which does nothing but increase the size of the CSS file—perhaps they are unaware of what cascading style sheet means? Not to mention the number of publishers that seem to use calibre for conversion which had made me wonder if any of them are paying Kovid Goyal for commercial use of his work.