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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i voted for epub, but my reasons include a lot of technical details which are irrelevant for the purposes of this poll, and also (far more importantly !) the fact that i frequently do a bit of "touch-up" work on my books to make sure they are formatted in a way that i find pleasant to read ; this includes using nice fonts with proper italics versions, defining decent margins, indented paragraphs, etc. i use Sigil to edit the epub file directly ; it's not difficult at all, but it does require a bit of knowledge of css and html code, and it should certainly never be *necessary* to do that to a book you've paid for.
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But given the comments in this thread, it does seem that no matter how an eBook is formatted,m you cannot please everyone. Some people like huge margins, sime like little margins, soime like no margins (for example). Some like paragraph spaces, some don't. So ePub is best since we can strip the DRM and edit the CSS to have it as we want. I strip the DRM, add in Fontin as my font choice (unless the ePub already has embedded fonts), remove the margins, fix the font sizes, and remove any paragraph spaces. It really doesn't take long to do and then I have a book I can enjoy reading.