Thread: Long Paragraph Bug
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Old 10-27-2013, 01:43 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
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.
I did not attribute the long paragraph solely to books written in the 19th century. I believe what I said the most of the ebooks that I have that had exhibited that bug were written in the 19th century.

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David
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