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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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I know this thread hasn't been touched in a few weeks, but I wasn't home to respond to this comment when I first saw it, and I kept forgetting which thread this was part of.
Anyway, while blank lines would not bother me much (I stare at docs all day formatted that way), the paragraph formatting is handled by the software. The blank lines are used on small screens but, on the mac for instance, the paragraphs are displayed with an indented first line and no extra spacing in between. I am attaching an example.
By the way, the font, justification, line spacing, window size, margin sizes, and one- or two-page view are customizable. I did switch to a plain color scheme for the example.
Jack