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Originally Posted by charleski
Why? Obviously you shouldn't use an embedded display face for the body text, but I see no problem in overriding the slightly awkward version of Times used in Sony readers with a more appropriate body font.
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Because the main body font should (in ebooks) be chosen by the user, not by the book creator. Some reading software does not allow the user to select a custom font, that is close to a "bug", and working around it by hard-coding an embedded body font only harms the software that works properly.