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Originally Posted by ahi
You are upset because I called your excessively senseless analogy "stupid"?
How amusing.
If you care to become informed enough on the topic not to make a fool of yourself, there is plenty to read here both for and against my position:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...782#post462782
- Ahi |
Excellent! Thanks. Was that so hard? I agree with you that well done PDFs can be beautiful, although I rarely see them since I refuse to install Adobe software on my machine. I still believe that with a sufficiently advanced renderer, a well-designed ePub or other html based format can look good enough that 99% of people wouldn't care. I also agree that current renderers aren't nearly good enough for that yet, but I'm fairly certain they will be in the future.
Most of the problems mentioned in the thread you pointed me at are not format problems as much as they are presentation problems. We currently cannot solve them in an automated fashion, but it's naive to think that it will remain that way. Just in the last ten years there have been huge advances in rendering software; Ligatures, kerning and hyphenation have come a long way to the point where it takes an expert to make improvements now. When it gets to the point that the experts are fixing maybe 5 or 6 things in an entire book, I'll be happy to not bother them at all.
I have to admit though, I proofread a lot of books, and I generally prefer my ebook versions to the paper versions for readability. At least my ebook versions never split a word over two pages.