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Originally Posted by cellaris
And why wait for "others" to add colour to books when you can do it yourself? We edit books to change fonts, indents, white space, etc. Why not edit them to add colour? That's the great advantage of e-books and e-readers: they allow you to change things. I can understand that some people only want to view their books in black and white and continue to use the usual elements to distinguish the main body of the text from what is not: bold, italics, other fonts and other font sizes. But if you want to see colour, why not apply it to everything that is not the main body of text? Apart from images and underlining, I use it for headers and footers, the progress bar, quotes, notes, chapter titles and subtitles... That alone changes the look considerably. There is not a single page in my books that does not contain colour. If you want colour, just add it, according to your own preferences (both in terms of the colour you choose and the elements to which you apply it).
(An example without modifying the content of the book. Only changing the colour of the text and background of the status bar, from more to less discreet. The combinations are endless. I use the one shown in the centre image, adding colour to several secondary elements of the text as well. Aesthetically, I find it more pleasing than the default black and white. I don't expect anyone to agree with my aesthetic tastes, I'm simply pointing out that colour can be present in your books as much as you want).
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The color is very ugly (IMHO).