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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
The squat aspect ratio means there's less room to play around with spacing,
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That's why I like my JE-100 actually. It's longer, so I'm playing with (especially) chapter headers for it. I have more room and thus more playing room.
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
It's all a series of tradeoffs that have to be negotiated. Almost all net results are at a slight disadvantage though.
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Oh, I agree. Which is why I will still buy the hardcovers and trade paperbacks and bring the electronic version with me for reading. Maybe I read different kind of books than you, but I don't care one bit how my copy of, let's say, "Shogun" looks like. As long as I can read the story I love. All those tradeoffs you mentioned will never weigh more than the ease of use the electronic version gives me.
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Originally Posted by =LDBoblo
That's simply justifying a lack of concern for quality
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No, it's not a lack of concern for quality. It's a different form of quality. The emphasis in ebooks is not on typesetting, I agree, but on the story. In paper books it's on both. If I bought a paper book, with the lack of typesetting that is common for ebooks, I'd return it (if I had even bought it) even though I might have enjoyed the story greatly. But, for my electronic reading, I prefer ease of use over beautiful typeset books.