The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

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

I was looking at an eBook the other day that the base font size is set to 0.983em and body is just a line height of 1.25.

I find this rather annoying.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

... body is just a line height of 1.25.

1.25 is my preference. YMMV

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Renate

1.25 is my preference. YMMV

My preference is no line height in the CSS and then I can use the Kobo line height slider to set it as I want.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

My preference is no line height in the CSS and then I can use the Kobo line height slider to set it as I want.

Yes, also with no line-height set the font metrics should otherwise decide the spacing. Maybe setting line-height is OK for webpages, but IMO shouldn't exist in ebooks.
My Calibre conversion default settings remove it. Then even without adjusting Kobo GUI all ebooks look OK.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

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

The css should not specify anything about body text.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

The css should not specify anything about body text.

I agree. But a lot of eBooks do make the body text a smaller size then leaving it as the default size.

[ownedbycats]

Massive wall-of-text paragraphs.

[JSWolf]

Graphic images to simulate text instead of an embedded fonts. Or graphic images to simulate a two column table.

Graphic images that are too small.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Graphic images to simulate text instead of an embedded fonts. Or graphic images to simulate a two column table.

Graphic images that are too small.

I just read a book (Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo) that used an image of three stars for scene breaks. I'm not sure what the image size was, but on the screen, they were pretty fuzzy.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I just read a book (Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo) that used an image of three stars for scene breaks. I'm not sure what the image size was, but on the screen, they were pretty fuzzy.

The graphic was too small and the code made it larger.

I don't understand why a graphic of asterisks is used when it's a common text character.

I've also seen this sort of graphic used and every place it's used is a different graphic file so the eBook is loaded with excess graphic files.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The graphic was too small and the code made it larger.

I don't understand why a graphic of asterisks is used when it's a common text character.

In my book, it was five pointed stars. But it's not like they added anything. It should have been a centered line of asterisks

I've also seen this sort of graphic used and every place it's used is a different graphic file so the eBook is loaded with excess graphic files.

Oh yeah. That is pretty sloppy.

[John F]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Massive wall-of-text paragraphs.

Maybe you've read Prophet Song by Paul Lynch?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by John F

Maybe you've read Prophet Song by Paul Lynch?

A fanfic, actually. The author also failed to break paragraphs during dialogue. I DNFed it because it was giving me a headache.

[ownedbycats]

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible."

If I see that paragraph one more time...

[hildea]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible."

If I see that paragraph one more time...

I've never seen that, I guess my reading isn't culturally important
Which books have you seen it on? Am I too cynical if I guess they are overwhelmingly written by white men?