The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What would you say if an author used knife and handle but did not say what type of knife?

I think most of us could assume the type of knife by what they were doing with it. If they're spreading butter on a slice of toast, it's likely not a super-sharp weapon knife.

[maddz]

A knife can be used as a weapon; a sword can be used as a knife. But a sword is specifically designed as a weapon whereas a knife generally is not (switchblades and fighting knives excepted).

I am not decrying the use of handle in the context of a knife of any type or an unspecific blade. I am decrying it when the author is explicitly using it in the context of a sword or dagger.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I think most of us could assume the type of knife by what they were doing with it. If they're spreading butter on a slice of toast, it's likely not a super-sharp weapon knife.

If it was a switchblade, that still has a handle.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If it was a switchblade, that still has a handle.

Not much like a sword. A switchblade is really a folding knife.

[JSWolf]

I don't like how some eBooks add in a line-height in CSS and makes the lines too spaced out.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I don't like how some eBooks add in a line-height in CSS and makes the lines too spaced out.

I don't like many things they add in the css. Line-height, abnormal base font size, huge text indents, spacing between paragraphs, right and left margins in body text, widows and orphans other than 1 and so on.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I don't like many things they add in the css.

Don't any of the reader software/apps let you put in your own "base CSS"?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I don't like many things they add in the css. Line-height, abnormal base font size, huge text indents, spacing between paragraphs, right and left margins in body text, widows and orphans other than 1 and so on.

I've seen a couple of eBooks recently where the first line of the first paragraph has a rather large indent. That looks awful.

Yes, you are correct about the mess made in most CSS.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

Don't any of the reader software/apps let you put in your own "base CSS"?

But you'd have to match the class name and you'd have to know what the classes in the CSS are trying to do. That's not going to work by making a CSS to replace the existing CSS.

I do have my own CSS code I add in and then I edit from there. Most of my CSS does not replace what's in the existing CSS.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Renate

Don't any of the reader software/apps let you put in your own "base CSS"?

I prefer to edit the formatting myself, so that I won't have to depend on any one app to do it for me.

[ownedbycats]

Cleaning out a mess of reviews from a book summary is annoying. Even more annoying is cleaning out a mess of reviews for a completely different book (at least it's the same author). WTF?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Renate

Don't any of the reader software/apps let you put in your own "base CSS"?

There are numerous kinds
1) Use device settings. Ignore Publishers styles

2) (mostly) Use Publishes styles... BUT AFAIK there an none that do Algebraically. It is an either or (rather than a make this 10% bigger).

3) Changes? We don't allow changes

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Cleaning out a mess of reviews from a book summary is annoying. Even more annoying is cleaning out a mess of reviews for a completely different book (at least it's the same author). WTF?

That's why I prefer to copy/paste the summaries by hand, not downloading them. Takes less time.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

Don't any of the reader software/apps let you put in your own "base CSS"?

KOReader

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I don't like how some eBooks add in a line-height in CSS and makes the lines too spaced out.

Oh, or the css has body text set to small.