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Originally Posted by JSWolf
ePub formatting is not about overriding the CSS.
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No one (except for Jon and a handful of other MobileRead nerds) cares about EPUB
formatting.
What people really care about is their
reading experience – original CSS be damned! (Most people have never even
heard of "CSS", and would have no idea what that acronym means.)
People wish for e-books they read to be
pleasant to their eyes. To look just as they (the
readers, not the publishers) wish to have them displayed.
That is why excellent e-reader apps are those that allow readers to
override easily whatever the
publisher's original intentions may have been, and replace them with the look that the
readers prefer to see.
Both Marvin and Moon+ Reader are excellent in this regard. Overall, they are far from perfect – as I said many times, I'd rate both of them at around 3 ˝ out of 5 stars, although Moon+ Reader might, in fact, deserve a 4-star rating by now.
(I know of no e-reader app deserving a higher than 4-star rating, although I certainly hope that BookFusion will get there one day; and, ideally, MapleRead and KOReader as well, if they become available on
all three main platforms: Android + iOS + the web. The more competition among quality e-reader apps, the better!)
