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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
More than an "orveride what the pubisher says", make sure everyone does stuf the same. And how can publishers format thier books, if the reader just overide everyting afterwards ?
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This is two separate issues.
Consistency in rendering, yes, that's valuable. Can't deny that. I've only used two ePub-capable readers (the Opus and FBReader) so I can't really comment on the state of things there.
Being able to say "the publisher chose a layout which does not work for me, ignore it and use the options I want instead" is a key advantage of electronic books. How well it works depends on the content -- it's perfectly fine for novels, for example, but perhaps rather less so for textbooks with a lot of charts and images.
I come to this from what may a different perspective to most MR participants: I'm part-blind. Publishers typically format for "normal" vision, whether it's ebooks or print. ebooks have the potential to make a whole lot of accessibility issues go away, but not if we wind up applying print limitations to them.
There's more to it than just "you can make the font bigger". This I have learned the hard way.