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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Some of the chapters start in the middle of the page. It would (to me) be preferable if the Chapters all started on a new page.
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Chapters start in many ways: from the very open chapter that starts on odd-numbered pages only, to the very close chapter that carries a minimal indication of new chapter (some of Folio Society's books do chapters by four or five lines of space, followed by the chapter number as 2- or 3-line drop caps.) The latter was usually used when there were very many and short chapters, with only minimal chapter indicators, and the 'chapters on new page only' treatment broke up the text more than was desirable ... or when its avoidance helped keep the page count, hence the printing costs, down.
In this particular case, the choice of chapter treatment does not appear to be out of line with respect to the book: chapters seem pretty short, so keeping 'formal chapter indicators' (such as new pages, text 'chapter', and this and that much white space) fairly low seems motivated.
Far too many widow lines, the apparently gratuitous mixing of very disparate typefaces in the first line of every chapter, as well as several very bad hyphenations, grate more on the eye, I think.
As this is an automatically produced book, only the typeface issue can be fixed. Bad hyphenations can be avoided, but it usually takes lot of manual work to do that, and widows almost always need manual tweaking of pages.