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Old 06-08-2023, 06:05 AM   #131
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Originally Posted by Faterson View Post
Not at all – it's the no. 1 feature I'm looking for in a quality e-reader app: the ability to override the original CSS easily, because I'm not interested in the original CSS in the least.

Both Moon+ Reader and Marvin are great in allowing the easy override of original CSS, which is what makes them such excellent e-reader apps.

This is the biggest, most delightful difference between printed books (duh...) and e-books: e-books allow all readers to be their own typographers. How? By supporting easy override of the original CSS.

Yes, I know, Jon, that you're obsessed with original CSS and "publisher's style", but you should realize that you're in a tiny minority of users with that preference. Most readers of e-books including myself don't give a damn about original CSS and "publisher's style". In all my years of using Marvin and Moon+ Reader, I have never switched on the "Publisher's Settings" button in either of them. Not once. I'm simply not interested in seeing the "publisher's layout" in the least. I wish to read e-books just how I wish to see them displayed – not how the publisher would like to display them for me.

That said, I have nothing against e-book readers supporting "Publisher's Style" and original CSS just like you want it. But it should be clear that this is a minority concern and that most users wouldn't even notice that such a feature was available in the app, and they likely wouldn't properly appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
For me, Moon+ Reader is atrocious excuse for an epub renderer. To even get Moon+ to make some use of the epub's CSS, you end up digging down multiple menus. And yet, there is a rather vocal crowd proclaiming that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread and insisting any issues with Moon+ should be fixed by the epub publishers and not Moon+'s developers.
I agree 100%. It's not an opinion. It's fact.

ePub formatting is not about overriding the CSS. It's about following the CSS. I feel sorry for you because you don't get this.
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