[Hadrien]

"lol, interesting reasoning. I'm still not sure why you have to pick just one format."

We're using LaTeX, and with pdflatex we can create great looking PDF, using a software that's been in development for a few years now, that's not the case of BBeB which is far from standard. The whole point of using a database is that we're not stuck in the future with only one format, font size etc...

"The best scheme would have bots and humans working together. And the "I'm not sure" sounds like you haven't even sufficiently studied the problem."

We've studied the problem comparing a few sources like Wikisource and Gutenberg, and while it's a lot faster to parse books this way, the errors are a lot more tougher to find, meaning you have to proof read each and every book. So yes, we're still aiming for a solution using both bots and books submitted by users since it's the best way to deal with this problem, but it's much better to open our database "wikisource-style" than to parse with bots.

And you don't seem to get how the whole thing work, all the books, public domain books or user submitted books are in the database. We have a few generic formatting style for these books: A4, Sony Reader and iLiad. Whenever someone download a book using one of these generic formatting, the book is generated and cached, which mean that the next one won't have to wait the 1 or 2 seconds it takes to generate a book. But if you want to generate a custom pdf, then ok, as long as you're logged in, we'll remember the settings that you're usually generating custom PDF with, and you'll be able to select, the font size, the margin etc... These custom generated books are not stored in cache afterwards, but it's still possible to generate any book that you'd like this way.

As for the size button, on BBeB it's not that great either. There's no hyphenation, meaning that you end up with huge blank spaces between the words. Justified text is nice, but if there's too many blank spaces between the words, it's not really readable, and BBeB can't deal with hyphenation in a nice way. I'd say that the best solution is to generate the right font size for your eyes, if the generic Sony Reader file doesn't suit you.