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I agree: Boring space is wasted space.
My fixes to overly wasted space (5-6" 3:4 screen) basic text, Un-decorated : 25% max add a chapter title line to the chapter numbering : 33% Artistic Chapter heads Up to 100% |
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Since you've been in contact, can you do so again and suggest TNR be removed? I don't see any reason for an embedded font for the main text. Sure, put in a font family of serif so on a Kindle a serif font will be used, but TNR should go. It makes a well designed eBook into a poorly designed eBook. The choice of fonts to embed can be the difference between a well made eBook and a poorly made eBook. The worst eBook I've ever seen in terms of embedded fonts is The Martian by Andy Weir. The publisher used Free Sans, Free Serif, and Free Mono. Three really awful fonts. If I wasn't able to edit the eBook to deal with these fonts, I would have found the eBook unreadable. One other thing I find I really dislike is when the chapter header is made to link back to the internal ToC. It doesn't look nice at all. I find there to be no need to do this as there is a ToC that's easily accessible without having to move to a different place in the eBook. |
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Because the started with doing online Browser (HTML) version. Remember Webscriptions? One of their versions was HTML fo those folk who read on their CRT
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Looking in the metadata, it looks like the EPUBs were created 2015-2017. Published by Orbit / Hachette Book Group. The code, it doesn't look like it's straight from InDesign, but it's relatively clean/minimal code (besides the ol' blank <span> encompassing every paragraph). Maybe they have some old custom converter tool they created years ago, and it's still chugging away with "old ways" of doing things. Side Note: And good thing I went digging into the code, I see a bug in Book 6 where they accidentally set lang + xml:lang set as French. I'll have to download the latest copy from Kobo and see if they fixed it since I downloaded. If not, I'll have to report it. |
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I remember seeing chapter head linkbacks a lot in books when I first started reading. And I did it in my first efforts making ebooks back when. But I stopped because it DID look ugly, especially when I switched to using Sony instead of Nook. Jon, if you are still reading, we are mostly on the same page. The book that I was making that worried you was for ME only. I will probably not live to see it public domain. My dad's old books that I hope to do for the MR library DON'T have a lot of chapter heading space. We are talking 1/4 to 1/3 of the screen max. And it's a very traditional centered look. So it's hardly worth anyone getting upset over. I may need to ask for help later with interior stuff. Some chapters have tables and other possibly tricky bits. My first plan is just getting the whole series scanned. My document scanner does not like the old thick and somewhat fragile paper, so I have to feed 'em a page at a time, ugh! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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