Not exact matches
Because ebook files are flexible —
meaning they can fit different screen
sizes and accommodate
changes of
font size and margins — image - heavy books such as cookbooks, children's books, and coffee table books don't translate well to ebooks.
In practice this
means that if you
change the base
font size of the document all other
sizes in the document are automatically scaled up as well to an equal degree.
Not only does this ensure that the
size relationship between
fonts in your document remains intact at all times, it also
means that you will not have to
change all your styles manually, if, after a long day's work, you decide that all the text is actually a tad too small.
There's the obvious issue of being able to
change font sizes (my 56 - year - old eyes suck), but in addition: I like the compactness of the reading experience; I seem to be able to scan a story better (that is speed up and slow down the reading process); it's also awesome to set up a catalog of highlighted text with book apps; and I can jump from my phone to my iPad to my Kindle and then to my laptop,
meaning that wherever I am whatever I want to read is always with me.
iBooks Author files are inherently fixed layout,
meaning that the design is static and does not allow the reader to
change the
font size or other visual settings.
The standard ebooks right now are «reflowable,»
meaning that the pages scale to fit different screen and
font sizes by
changing page breaks and paragraph widths.