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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's because you're not fussy.
I am. I have a specific set of preferences about formatting and want all my ebooks to follow it. The same font size, line height, margins, text indents, no spaces between paragraphs, no huge white space around chapter headings and so on. I also hate fiddling with the settings on my ereaders every time I open a new ebook and so my ebooks all have uniform font size/margins/line height.
I know the majority of ebook readers don't care about such things and probably don't even notice them. Some of us do, though (I'm not the only MR member who edits the css and formatting of their ebooks). To each their own.
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Add me to the list of people who edit almost all ebooks before sending them to my ereaders. As with @Sirtel, I have a very specific and likely boring look to my ebooks.
Books that mix indented paragraphs with a wide space between paragraphs get indented only. Books that use spacing around a chapter header that have it taking up half a page that could be better used for text. Books that force line heights lose them. Do you really need to have an ebook look like a double spaced school essay? Forced left/right margins on body text are removed (likely not as big a deal for Kindle users since the minimum margins on Kindles are so wide). Ebooks that embed and force a body font have that removed—life is too short to read in Times New Roman.
Or consider the number of ebooks that use dropcaps—one recent example used a 5rem (5 times basic body text size) glyph in a cursive script font. The modern version of the illuminated initials from a medieval manuscripts but without the beauty.