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Originally Posted by DNSB
What I've seen is that since I implemented this fix, I randomly get a single line at the end of a paragraph moved to the next page even though there is more than enough space to fit it on the previous page -- two lines on one page and then the last line on the next page is rather annoying. It does happen less often than the splitting of long paragraphs but then few of the books I read had paragraphs long enough to trigger the bug. Most of those books were written in the 19th century when it was considered de rigueur to go overboard in descriptive prose, the why use 5 words when you can use 500 or 5000 school of writing. Perfervid turgidity at it's worst.
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Well, my Aura HD didn't carry a warning sign "Not To Be Used With 19th Century Novels." Moreover, the attribution of long paragraphs solely to those is plainly wrong. The latest Pynchon novel has plenty of them; many philosophers used long paragraphs: Sometimes people just want to express something more complex than fits in a five-line paragraph. But of course you are right - if someone wants to read such things on an ereader they should just shut up about it; their device handles tweet-length paragraphs perfectly after all, and Dickens just didn't know anything about efficient prose composition.
The Last Line New Page Bug is indeed a new nuisance replacing the old one - but, as you say, it occurs much less frequently - I've read books in which I had the Long Paragraph Bug on every other page.