Thread: WIRED: Why E-Books Look So Ugly
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Old 05-20-2009, 10:36 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
And I guess, this answers the Wired question: "Why E-Books Look So Ugly?"
in part it does. Most people really do not have a typographer's/typesetter's eye. And even if they did, the ePub format won't allow you to actually typeset and work on layout problems. Besides, who the heck wants to play around with typeset and work on layout problems when the whole point is to read and engage the reading perhaps through jottings.
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