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Originally Posted by Amalthia
LRF gets my vote as well. I can't read epubs on my Sony PRS-505 because the page numbers in the margins drives me nuts, the lack of justification drives me nuts a little less. So no matter how well formatted the epub may or may not be it does not matter with the built in glaring flaws in the design.
I do read stories over 1000 pages long on my device and you lose screen real estate if you have to adjust the right margin to accomodate numbers.
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Yes, those two things drive me nuts, as well.
I'll stick to lrf files until epubs start looking a lot, lot better. I read a LOT of fiction and I don't have time to torture an epub file into something that I find readable. And apparently, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There's too much diversity in epub. If anyone can code an epub to look like what she or he (or some company) wants it to, then I'll steer away from epubs until this "Personality Matrix" that goes into the creation of an epub is downplayed into some kind of vanilla coating. If I want diversity in personality, then I'll read the comments on this Forum; but if I want an epub that "works" and maintains a look that approximates the written page - which is a pretty good gauge of standardization; and most readers here seem to agree with that - then give me some kind of standardization that steers away from the "Cult of Personality" that currently goes into the making of these shameless pieces of ill-looking, narcissistic pieces of garbage.
Don