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Originally Posted by Harmon
I just bought The Polish Officer (Alan Furst) on the Sony Store. The formatting is screwed up, so that only italicized fonts can be zoomed. The regular fonts stay on S. I have to move to landscape mode to make it readable. I left a comment as a warning to other buyers, but wouldn't it be great if, say, Inkmesh could pick up tags like BF (Bad Format.)
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You should be able to return it--if I bought a book in a store, took it home, and discovered everything after the first couple of pages was in an unreadable font, or had random ink-spills on the paper, I'd be able to return it.
Aside from that--if ebook pricing/review sites could have user-generated tags (and nobody's stopping anyone from setting up a delicious account for just that purpose), there's still the problem of accountability.
For you, BF means most of the fonts don't work zoomed. (I've seen that; it's awful.) For some, BF means 1/2" indents on the right & left. For others, BF means not-right-justified, because they're not aware that all epubs are going to have ragged right edges on a Sony. Or they hate that Sony's epub reader doesn't support justification, and they protest it by tagging all the books BF.
It's not un-doable, or worthless, to have reader-created tags & reviews, but it's not up to the standards of traditional editors, either. There's a lot of noise mixed in with the signal.