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Originally Posted by Ankh
It might be "a useless feature" with the current generation of ePub reading software. However, when and if Adobe and others implement defaults and overrides in the UI of the ePub reading software (not much different than the capabilities of average web browser these days) things like user-defined font size, font family, margins, indentation, etc. could be set once and used for every book, without any waste of time.
You can't do that with PDF, while ePub reading software has just started to evolve.
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Yes, ePub will no doubt be able to turn any handheld device into a fine HTML viewer. But it will never be able to turn them into a device that displays professionally made books, textbooks, and magazines as they were intended to be viewed.
It is a mistake to extrapolate stop-gap measures and practices currently in place to make up for the extreme short-comings of the technology indefinitely into the future.
Do you accept, by the way, that people whose living depends on making good looking and readable books are going to be better at that tasks than random eBook device enthusiasts or software automation? Or does our disagreement start on this very fundamental point?