{"id":1465,"date":"2009-06-26T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:41:26","slug":"yo-epub-evangelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/yo-epub-evangelists\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo, EPUB evangelists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you EPUB designer\/evangelists who talk about the way EPUB allows you to embed fonts, listen up: It doesn&#8217;t make a damn bit of difference.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that makes a difference is what the EPUB reader has available to it, to wit: Adobe Digital Editions will display one font and one font ONLY.&nbsp; ITS OWN.<\/p>\n<p>So will Sony reader.<\/p>\n<p>So will FBReader.<\/p>\n<p>You can mark up the text like crazy, but I&#8217;m here to tell you, your CSS theatrics is a big fat waste of time. Ask me how I know.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I didn&#8217;t set out to become in anywise an expert at this and I&#8217;m not and I&#8217;m not saying I am. But until such a time as you can make ADE, Sony Reader, and FBReader&nbsp; display your brilliant design, the EPUB &#8220;embed font&#8221; &#8220;feature&#8221; is a non-starter.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: People who seek out and read e-books DON&#8217;T CARE about fancy design. They care about content and the ease of its readability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you EPUB designer\/evangelists who talk about the way EPUB allows you to embed fonts, listen up: It doesn&#8217;t make a damn bit of difference. The only thing that makes a difference is what the EPUB reader has available to it, to wit: Adobe Digital Editions will display one font and one font [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}