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 (DIR) Post #Ad9Acqi45jAmbMBE9o by xor@tech.intersects.art
       2023-12-24T21:07:06Z
       
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       how is ebook formatting still uniformly so bad? footnotes are a mess, "end of book" markers are inconsistent, illustrations are virtually always a fiasco. is it still just such an afterthought, or is it somehow an impossible problem?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad9AcrwdV2QGQq0NVY by polarisera@spinster.xyz
       2023-12-24T21:26:10.292401Z
       
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       @xor It's the mystical magical universal "flow", infinitely adjustable font sizes. Let a lettersetter design each page, fixed for each ebook, one ebook no matter the device, it would be fine. But it must flow something "books" never do.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad9AcsrM69nDGkXfuq by xor@tech.intersects.art
       2023-12-24T21:08:31Z
       
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       I love books and I may be something of a print fetishist but it just seems like such a crazy gap in quality between the print and digital products, this many years in