02-08-2020, 07:42 PM | #31 |
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The question I ask I wonder IF people answering Cant READ! I Give ALL the information I have in Detail Yet folks on her ask the same question over & over. Gets so aggravating to even Ask for help. I also ask answers be in Baby steps... then they get ALL Techy on me. Several times I Never had the problem Fixed. I still have not been able to get my Fires to connect to my PC or Calibre...
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02-08-2020, 08:28 PM | #32 | |
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02-08-2020, 08:53 PM | #33 |
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To be perfectly honest, I really don't care all that much if posts are in the wrong forum or not. I find that many people who are overly pedantic about "wrong forum" pronouncements are usually motivated by some sort of inner referee wanting to blow a loud whistle than they are about wanting to see someone's question have the absolute best chance of being answered.
Wanna know what else I find annoying since we're being all honest and open? People who report posts being in the wrong forum and then refuse to take inaction on the part of a moderator as a hint that it's not that big of a deal. Or ones who report posts AND comment in the thread about it being in the "wrong forum." Report it (if you must) and then let. it. go. |
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Um... there is. Custom fonts, boldness slider, custom font sizes. You can't use any of those with the plain mobi. Of course it depends on whether these features are important to you or not. For me, they're very important. But I've gathered there are lots of people who use none of them and wouldn't be interested. For them there would be no difference.
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Extra info is great, especially if it truly is a better way, but at the very least if you are going to put the effort into replying I want an actual answer to my actual question to be able to learn from. |
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* Can you ask the question? -> Do it * Can you ask the question if giving more info? --> Ask for that info * Any other case: Scroll down |
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The rules and divisions are there to try and help people, Jon. Not to create automatons checking boxes and doing everything the way you think it should be done. If you want to help people, then help them. Stop trying to mold them in your own image and help them. Help them because you want to. Not because they made it as easy as humanly possible to help them with their very first post (in the exact right location). Last edited by DiapDealer; 02-09-2020 at 09:51 AM. |
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Less customization options prevent the potential to screw things up. The further you customize, the smaller the return. Once you are obsessed about font hinting and kerning, for example, I believe you went way too far into the OCD territory. |
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02-09-2020, 01:34 PM | #44 |
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I've occasionally answered a newbies query by asking a moderator to move it into another subforum because it's more likely to get helpful answers there. This is to help the poster, not to adhere to some rigid idea of how the forum should be organised.
Regarding mobi, there's a current thread in which the OP is puzzled as to why custom fonts only occasionally work (I think this is part of a longer font related thread) naturally it's important to state that custom fonts work only in azw3 format. I think it's understandable to feel a bit miffed when someone vaguely asks for help, then doesn't give the extra information asked for, but just disappears. Last edited by BookCat; 02-09-2020 at 01:38 PM. |
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