Font size and lighting are the big ones. Also I read in bed, mostly lying down, so a phsyical 600+ plus book gets annoying quick having to hold it open and sometimes hold the big half of the book up. Hardcovers doubly so.
Only time when I feel like a physical book is a better experience is outside in the sun
You keep talking like she only cheated. She cheated AND it was incest. Pretty sure that is a crime in many places today. Not to mention she talks about how she purposefully avoids getting pregnant by Robert. Yet she took no such precautions with Jamie even knowing the risks she would be putting on her kids and herself.
Ned offered Cersei an out. She could have taken the kids and ran to Casterly Rock and Robert couldn’t reasonably do anything about it, and she knows it. Instead she chose to kill Robert, because it’s not just her/kids safety, she wants the power as well she wants her child on the Throne. Anyway, Ned accepted a deal to confess and take the black, she went against that and had him executed.
You could say she wanted to be sure he wouldn’t tell anybody the truth. But the rumors were already well known both of the affair and of the children’s father. The reality is the truth coming from the lips of a honorable man is scarier. However, there was really nobody for him to tell at this point in time, Robert is dead. The Lannisters are on the throne and are powerful, nobody would stand up to them now even if Ned could find a sympathetic ear to listen to.
Also, why was she still chasing the Stark girls? The truth that Ned knew, and Jon Arryn before him is now hidden (except for the constant rumors and the fact that everybody really knows the truth). She is chasing the girls to hold them hostage. To subject Sansa to the same treatment she received from Robert.
She’s complex, and sympathetic at times as any complex character is, but she doesn’t just want her children’s safety, she wants power too and your post seems to forget that. She had a lot of different options and it’s silly to say most people would choose the same as she did.
Publishers continuously bring in new writers…
Fantasy/scifi space has had some good ones, but the problem is finding them. I’d recommend just sitting back and looking for posts on reddit or elsewhere of self-published recommendations rather than digging through the piles to look for a gem. Also, my rule of thumb is frankly to throw out anything with an awful cover. If they couldn’t be bothered to pay for a cover artist, then it’s unlikely they paid for an editor.