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The impetus for starting this thread came from using the Calbre ebook viewer and noticing that while the .epub version includes the page breaks between the last page of a chapter and the first page of the next, the .mobi version does not.
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That's true; calibre's viewer seems to ignore page breaks altogether with mobi files. It would be nice if they'd fix that.
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It occurred to me that without the page breaks, the spacing between chapters would be uniform throughout the ebook.
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I sometimes wonder about the wisdom of creating page breaks too. After all, many hard-copy books are published exactly like that where a chapter will end and a new one will simply start after a set number of spaces. It wastes less paper that way. And about half the files you download from Gutenberg don't have page breaks in them. Nobody gives a darn. But having said that, I like having a new chapter start on a nice clean page in my reader. Looks nicer to me. But it ain't a big deal.
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With that in mind, I think it's best to use the page breaks and let the last pages of chapters do as they will.
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I'll second that. I really think you got some bumb advice concerning that. I really don't think there's a single publisher out there who thinks twice about how many lines are on the last page of a chapter. I already mentioned a couple I opened at random. But the thing with e-books is that the lines on pages change whenever you jump through the book. I'm not sure, but maybe it depends on the reader being used too. I only have a Kindle. I've noticed that if I end a chapter that has maybe two paragraphs on it, and then jump back to a previous chapter to reference something, and then jump back to where I was, that last page will now only have one paragraph or maybe it will have three now. And if I go to the TOC and click on any chapter from there, and then hit the back button, the last page of the previous chapter will always be completely full of lines!
So I'm not sure, but I don't think you can do anything to force a certain number of lines on that final chapter page anyway in an e-book. Maybe a Kobo or Sony or a Nook does things differently though.