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elf ([personal profile] elf) wrote in [community profile] ebooks 2012-04-26 08:16 pm (UTC)

Obligatory rant about legacy elements of print bleeding into the ebook industry:

I hate that PDFs are expected to have headers and page numbers... you don't need them. They're clutter-text filling up margins that should be cropped out entirely. They're a holdover from print--and worse, a holdover from old styles of printing, where all the pages got printed on one big sheet & then cut down, and the headers guaranteed the ability to keep all the bits of a book together. They're irrelevant for POD printing systems, and worse then irrelevant in ebooks.

However, it's $@%&!! about time for ebook hardware mfrs to come up with a useful header/footer system. Kindle comes closest, but still has issues. An ereader should support show-or-hide headers that have the title, author, and page number in tiny text, so when you open your book you've got a reminder--and so you remember that author later.

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