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Old 05-15-2008, 09:53 AM   #16
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I also think eReader is a really bad idea on a device with a 6" or larger screen. The problem is the way eReader eBooks are formatted. Again we are trying to fit old technology onto new technology. eReader is formatted for small palm type screens. That may work fine there, but not on a decent sized screen. Can you imagine reading a book with line separators for each paragraph and no indents? That looks awful on my computer screen. And it will not look any better on a 6" or 9.7" screen.
But is that something that's inherent in the format, or just something that people do because the book is being formatted for a small screen?

Many commercial MobiPocket books (eg the Baen ones) have a blank line between paragraphs, rather than indenting the first line of a paragraph. Although I prefer to have indents myself (and all the Mobi books I create myself using indents) I'm not going to lose sleep over the fact that a book using blank lines between the paragraphs. It's not a big deal (for me).
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