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Originally Posted by Jellby
Because the main body font should (in ebooks) be chosen by the user, not by the book creator.
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Can't agree with you in the slightest. One of the main problems with current ebooks is that book creators are
not choosing and embedding a font that reflects and enhances the text. Instead, if a font is embedded, it'll be CharisSIL simply because it's free and makes the text look a little different. This just reflects the 2nd-class status that ebooks currently occupy.
Those with particularly poor eyesight should be able to substitute a font that's designed for maximum clarity, but other than that I don't see any reason for the majority of users to be mucking around with the fonts.
We need to adjust the fonts now because the presentational standard of ebooks is so generally awful - that's not a state to which we should aspire.