And hopefully it would offer something a bit better than a Comic Sans-like font for 'cursive', but that's not a dealbreaker. OK, 'fantasy' might even be left out of the list since it could be literally anything, so a generic fallback is not very helpful.

No, I don't expect the device to have the exact same fonts that would be available on a computer, but that's what fallback fonts are for - I expect the reader to at least respect the main fallback font styles available in HTML/CSS, that is, 'serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy' and offer a default value for each of them. All of that is lost if the reader overrides the font type with a one-size-fits-all thing. I might choose to format a quote in a monospaced font, if it's supposed to be (say) a computer output, a telegram, or something typewritten. If your main text is in serif, your image captions and footnotes will be sans-serif in order to make it clear that they are not part of the main flow. I come from a publishing background, and in the industry we use different font types (serif against sans-serif, for instance) to carry meaning.

What I want is an ebook reader that will respect publisher's choices regarding formatting, instead of overriding them with cutesy 'styles' and readability-impairing 'background textures.' In particular, I'm talking about fonts. Let me begin by explaining what I'm looking for.

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