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Originally Posted by kacir
For me, the problem is most that most of commercial e-books I have seen try to reproduce the look of printed page. Including:
- ridiculously wide margins - up to 15mm
- use of serif font - the low resolution displays work much getter with a heavily hinted sanserif
- full justification with too few words on page - that combined with the lack of hyphenation leads to wildly varying width of space between words
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Like you said, we each have different tastes. I personally prefer a serifed font. Your other two points I agree wholly on. Compare the different versions of say, Pride and Prejudice, and the official Sony has the font and margins cranked up way huge in comparison. Way more pages.
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Originally Posted by kacir
Why can't an e-pub viewer have one file UserContent.css that would override anything that is in css file inside epub file. This way Ahi could switch off that annoying page numbers, while scholars that need to refer to the original page numbers could keep the numbers visible. I could make all my books left justified, because I prefer words with even spaces to aesthetically pleasing text box (with very un-aesthetic rivers and wildly varying typographic gray). I could use my loved heavily hinted sanserif, while Ahi could use the fanciest font from his extensive collection of typographically perfect fonts.
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There is no reason why this can't be done. The only thing is most use the Adobe rendering engine for epub, and adobe I guess just hasn't thought (or cared) to add it.