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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Agree. An e-book only has to look good and follow (IMHO) basic rules:
- Clearly set apart the chapter header.
- Justify the text.
- Non-indent first paragraph.
- Indent following paragraphs.
- No whitespace lines between paragraphs.
- Whitespace line or a glyph/image as a scene break.
I think that all of my paper books follow these rules. I've never seen a ficiton book with a ragged right margin, for example, or whitespace between paragraphs.
It's very easy to stick to these rules (you basically need a few rules for the - and h tags), and then the reader can easily override them.
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The only ones in this list I agree with are the first and the last. The rest is all personal preference. Why should an ebook follow the same rules as paper books? Because it was always done that way? If we only did what we've always done we wouldn't even be having this discussion because we would be reading on stone tablets.
Shari