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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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I agree 100%. All of this can be a mess and would need cleaning up to look good. I don't get why most publishers feel the need to make their eBooks look like their pBooks when that doesn't work for eBooks. eBooks should be formatted to look good on the devices we use to read them.