> I set myself some pretty stiff criteria for the ebook – it needed to replicate the design of print edition as far as possible [...] My hot(?) take as a reade

> I set myself some pretty stiff criteria for the ebook – it needed to replicate the design of print edition as far as possible [...] My hot(?) take as a reader: I want none of this. Just give me proper semantics and let my reader (while respecting my personal preferences) figure out presentation. I'm quite tired of publishers thinking that they somehow need to "preserve the unique aesthetics" of a paper-based medium, despite that usually working out quite poorly. Fonts that look great on paper don't necessarily on my eInk, LCD, or OLED display I'm reading the book on, for one thing. Margings/padding are usually a world of pain, and one of the first things I end up doing when opening a new ePub is often to disable all publisher formatting. While I love the idea of an open format and really don't like the idea of being stuck in Amazon's walled garden, at least they figured that part out in their Kindle ecosystem from the beginning. With ePub, it's been hit and miss.