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Originally Posted by jhlovestoread
This is very interesting. What is it about an ebook and the way it's been formatted that you do not like that you need to reformat all ebooks before reading them? I'm genuinely curious since I mostly just read via the Kindle app and I get what I get.
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For me, it's things like having a paragraph indent on all paragraphs other than the first in the chapter and the first after a scene/section break, having paragraphs that do not use excessive line spacing, not having forced full justification since I prefer to read left justified (aka ragged right), not having forced large margins. Other pet peeves are inconsistent base font sizes, chapter headings that take half the screen, blank lines at the end of a chapter that can force a blank page and multiple pages of advertising.
Oddly, much of what I prefer can be achieved simply by removing the settings in the CSS so I can control the line spacing, margins, justification and font size from the menu on my ereader. Others seem to be from people who feel that an eink screen must have the page displayed as similar as possible to the physical book. Or the idiots who still use absolute measurements for margins, font sizes, line spacing, etc.
It doesn't take me that long and it adds to my reading enjoyment so, to me, it's worth the few minutes.