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Old 09-02-2009, 12:33 PM   #497
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But if the effort required to satisfy the experts is disproportionate, it'll never get done, and in any case would be better spent on other things.
Good thing then that it isn't. A slight adjustment for the ePub specification (which already includes theoretical support for containing PDFs along with the XHTML) and a sensible (and very probably relatively minor) adjustment to the ePub reading software (usually made by Adobe for a number of eBook reading devices anyways) could have us, by the end of next year, receiving books that have fixed layouts with regular and large font sizes for standard eBook screen sizes, but also have XHTML to fallback on if the user has a different size display or needs a different size font.

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No - should I? I've got a lot of books on my list.
Methinks you should. It has earned me some praise from a non-sympathizer recently. (Jellby's work is based on the LaTeX source of my own PDF version.)

It's a 4000-5000+ page (6" page, at least) story, and all of it is rather conversational, very entertaining, and also educational in terms of being a window onto Casanova's time period. Not vulgar either, though amorous endeavors do definitely become focal points with some regularity.

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