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Originally Posted by HarryT
I take the opposite viewpoint: why cling to the outmoded idea of a fixed-layout page simply because that is what paper books have? Electronic devices offer the potential for reflowable content, user selection of text size, margins, etc, which paper books cannot, all of which goes to enhance the reading experience.
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At the expense of degrading the reading experience on a far more fundamental level.
The myriad enthusiastic suggestions on this board that considerations about proper typography should be thrown to the wind are proposing something that really is just fundamentally unthinkable. Not for a marginalized niche market perhaps, but certainly unthinkable for a market that is meant to be a serious alternative to print books.
Relegating typography to a secondary concern in making books is akin to relegating proper design principles to a secondary concern in making clothes. Conceivable, but not anything that could or should ever become the rule instead of the exception.
And also what Hajo said.
