08-07-2020, 11:49 AM | #46 | |
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08-07-2020, 11:52 AM | #47 |
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08-07-2020, 01:11 PM | #48 |
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08-07-2020, 01:27 PM | #49 |
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Yes, and the style of the numbering. They also preserve the advertisements at the end of the book. All of that's fine; it's what they should do since they're an archive. What I meant by pretentious is that by today's conventions it strikes me that way.
Since I'm reformatting them for my personal use, and occasionally uploading here, I use the Rework Chapter Heads sigil plugin and change them to words, Twenty-three, etc. but for the TOC they have the word Chapter in front of the number, while in the book it's just the number words. It looked a bit bare and sparse without the word Chapter in the TOC. |
08-07-2020, 03:40 PM | #50 | |
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08-07-2020, 04:15 PM | #51 |
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I can see it seeming like that for books written in the last several decades, but can also see where it might be mood setting, but would prefer hindu-arabic numerals.
I read a pbook a few months ago with no chapter numbers or titles at all. That was a bit annoying, especially when I wanted to find something earlier in the book. |
08-07-2020, 04:23 PM | #52 |
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Numerals, as in 23, seem sort of cold and sterile to me compared to the friendlier Twenty-three. We're reading, not doing arithmetic.
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08-07-2020, 04:34 PM | #53 |
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08-08-2020, 12:48 AM | #54 | |
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08-11-2020, 04:50 AM | #55 |
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08-11-2020, 07:23 AM | #56 |
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Boring Bookerley here for Roman script, Mangal for devanagari, tempted to see what font Kobo uses for nastaliq, if I could buy it.
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08-11-2020, 09:38 PM | #57 |
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I can't switch fonts.
If I could, then for readability I'd use Andika for Roman and Cyrillic alphabets, Skeirs for Gothic. YMMV. |
08-26-2020, 12:39 PM | #58 |
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I like Century Schoolbook; and Calibri or Verdana if i feel like Sans... But I like to switch from time to time.
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08-31-2020, 03:21 AM | #59 |
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I just use Times New Roman.
I tried reading in bookerly, Baskerville and a couple other, but I always found that Times had lesss wasted spaced on the horizontal axis. |
09-12-2020, 01:41 PM | #60 |
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Gentium Book for material that utilizes the Latin Writing System.
Noto Sans _language_ for everything else. They are decidedly not pretty, but I decided to convert everything to one font family, when I realized that one font designer's Final Nun looks exactly like another font designer's Vav, and that slowed down my reading speed by at least 100 wpm. I'd prefer to read pretty fonts, but pretty and pan-Unicode seem to be mutually exclusive properties. |
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