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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
Ebooks offer the flexibility to give each reader what he wants whether the author/typographer/publisher likes it or not.
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To be fair--many readers have no idea what they'd like, and will try all sorts of weird settings before finding the ones that work best for them. For many people, this involves playing with three or four options, going "wow!" a few times--and then giving up on digital books because they "look weird."
People do have individual needs & preferences, but as the web has discovered, nobody really likes to read red text on a black background with an animated dragon who follows around the mouse. Too many "pretty" or "exotic" features ruin an ebook.
In the mid-80s, lots of people got computers with word processors & printers. And suddenly we saw a horrible range of supposedly business-focused letters in scripty or old english fonts, or multiple colors.