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Originally Posted by cmdahler
These typographical niceties may sound trivial and totally anal to many (as in, "get a life, dude, and just read the damn book"), but it's all the little trivial things like these that add up to the difference between a professional-looking document and one that is just flogged up on Word. Professionally typeset documents just beg to be read. You've got to really want to read something that looks like unedited OCRd text.
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I generally can read anything if it is well written enough, and not really think about any of this. Most people don't even realize what kind of quotes there are in the text - but you are right: everyone
does realize that a book looks "nicer" and more professional, hence more inviting, when all these little details have been taken care of. And I find it encouraging that there are people who care enough about these things to make an issue of them. In the meantime, the world of commercial ebooks has much more basic problems to deal with than curly quotes: wrong encoding, ocr errors, forgotten headers and page numbers in the middle of the text, typos, you name it. The way things are now, I am happy just to find an ebook without any obvious errors in it - but I look forward to the time when curly quotes and ligatures will be the only things I have to complain about
