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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Thanks for mentioning the sale, I'll go buy them all today.
RE Formatting; I prefer that my books have a table of contents, no spaces between paragraphs and chapter breaks. I'm sure what's up now is fine for most people and there is no need for you to change things. It'll only take me a few minutes to get them how I want them (based on looking at the sample) so it's no big deal.
EDIT: Just purchased them all, quite a bargain.  |
Thanks so much for buying the books, Brian--and for the info re formatting. I went by the Smashwords Style Guide, which had beta instructions for creating a linked table of contents, but said a TOC wasn't necessary for fiction. Since I had 12 books to format--a very time-consuming undertaking--that was good enough for me to just eliminate the idea of TOC's. But now that you mention it, when I'm reading an ebook, I like having that TOC, too. So maybe, if I find myself with a chunk of time and nothing better to do (HAHAHAHAHA), I'll add them in.
I definitely didn't put spaces between paragraphs--hate that--but some e-formats add them, for some reason. I do have a couple of spaces between chapters, but not much. If spaces are getting added on top of that, it probably seems like more than it is. I should probably eliminate those spaces altogether in the future.
I hate not having absolute control over what my readers will see when they open up one of my books. (Control freak? Me?) But that just seems to be the nature of e-publishing right now.