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Originally Posted by Larken
I'm looking at taking my existing collection of books and converting them to epub, but until then, I'm perfectly happy with taking a book in .txt format, loading it on and then switching to a medium font. Perfectly readable. The only thing I'm missing are the pretty pictures and hyperlinked chapters.
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... and all the formatting, such as italics. In a lot of books, italics are used for emphasis and you miss a lot if they aren't present.
Eg, look at the following passage from Dickens' "David Copperfield":
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'Well! I counsels him to speak to Em'ly. He's big enough, but he's bashfuller than a little un, and he don't like. So I speak. "What! Him!" says Em'ly. "Him that I've know'd so intimate so many years, and like so much. Oh, Uncle! I never can have him. He's such a good fellow!"
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Take away the italics and you lose the whole "point" of the passage, don't you think?