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Originally Posted by Superlucky
I'm paying for content, period. That's not creating an aristocratic permission-culture, it's providing compensation for the time and effort it took to produce and distribute the content. Those of us who love reading (as opposed to loving books) can't grasp this obsession with what to us is essentially packaging. Yes, the packaging serves a purpose and needs to be adequate, but all the waxing poetic about the space between letters and the claim that there is no way to have a pleasant reading experience with an epub evokes nausea and eye rolls.
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The thing is, Gutenberg basic plaintext versions are moderately well-formatted. They have line breaks that match the original for length, and if you put them in a normal-reading-size font, they match your years of practice in reading text. Most computers show text files in a plain sans serif font, easy to read on a 72-dpi computer screen.
That is packaging. That's *good* packaging. Want to see bad packaging? Check out today's
XKCD.
I've seen a letter-sized zine published entirely in
Chevalier. It was
awful. Nothing like 5,000 words of content you really, really want to read written in something that makes your eyes bleed to convince you that typography is an
important art.