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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I don't agree, but I'm not trying to say you're wrong. It's just not visually obvious to me in ebooks. And I feel no need (in regular fiction) to keep to print-book typographic standards. (I prefer "ragged right" on screen, for example, which I think looks like crap in print).
The Chapter header tells me I'm in a new chapter. I've always thought the non-indent on the first paragraph was overkill. In ebooks, I prefer the first half-dozen words or so of the first paragraph in a scene break to be all caps or bolded, if the publisher didn't insert an actual scene break simple (like asterisks or a little gif).
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... Rather than their depressing habit of just removing the indent and putting a slight margin. Which isn't the easiest to see, as well as being virtually invisible if it happens to fall out at the end of the page.
I lose count of how many times I've had to page back and change the font size to check if there is perhaps a scene break that makes the book make more sense, because the publisher thinks an extra line is good enough for a scene break. And it is -- in physical books, where you can plot the layout and insert, um, asterisks, whenever that happens.